Quotes About Audience

I just want to play tennis in front of the big crowds.

I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

Don't bring your kids to my show, and I won't come to your house and cuss.

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.

Audiences are embracing more and more unique material. I think they can sense the cynicism when people are just cranking something out to try to ride off the success of something else. I think they can feel it.

My biggest concern is that Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket are competing too much. They should be complementing each other and the more they clash the more damaging it will be for cricket.

I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

You know, I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

I like to get the audience involved in my act by walking among the tables and getting people to ask me questions.

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.