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Search ResultsFound 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. Author: Aaliyah
| | I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer. Author: Aaron Spelling
| | Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon! Author: Adam Pascal
| | I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience. Author: Adam Sandler
| | Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. Author: Adrian Mitchell
| | As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it. Author: Ajay Devgan
| | In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate. Author: Ajay Devgan
| | Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. Author: Al Jarreau
| | I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response. Author: Al Lewis
| | I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience. Author: Alan Rickman
| | The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial. Author: Alan Rickman
| | The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. Author: Alben W. Barkley
| | I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band. Author: Alex Lifeson
| | When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring. Author: Alex Lifeson
| | Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
| | I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
| | If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
| | Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. Author: Alfred Jarry
| | I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then. Author: Alice Cooper
| | If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. Author: Alice Cooper
| | They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. Author: Alice Cooper
| | If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. Author: Allan Carr
| | We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. Author: Amar Bose
| | The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience. Author: Andre Kostelanetz
| | With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. Author: Andrzej Wajda
| | I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already. Author: Andy Garcia
| | The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience. Author: Andy Goldsworthy
| | When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room. Author: Andy Kaufman
| | Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. Author: Andy Taylor
| | We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short. Author: Andy Taylor
| | Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience. Author: Ang Lee
| | I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows. Author: Anjelica Huston
| | I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. Author: Ann Patchett
| | And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist. Author: Anna Friel
| | You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. Author: Anna Held
| | On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience. Author: Anthony Quinn
| | Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. Author: Archibald Philip Primrose
| | To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. Author: Archie Shepp
| | Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. Author: Archie Shepp
| | The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you. Author: Aries Spears
| | I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. Author: Art Garfunkel
| | Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. Author: Arthur Miller
| | I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you. Author: Atom Egoyan
| | These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level. Author: Atom Egoyan
| | When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience. Author: Atom Egoyan
| | I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience. Author: Augusten Burroughs
| | And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! Author: Barbara Bush
| | Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! Author: Barbara Bush
| | The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. Author: Barbra Streisand
| | It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right. Author: Barry Levinson
| | The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable. Author: Barry Levinson
| | The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience. Author: Barry Manilow
| | They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh. Author: Barry Sonnenfeld
| | I can't imagine working without and audience. Author: Bea Arthur
| | Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. Author: Beau Bridges
| | Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see. Author: Bebe Neuwirth
| | Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. Author: Bell Hooks
| | If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end. Author: Benedetto Marcello
| | We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too. Author: Benny Anderson
| | Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. Author: Benny Goodman
| | So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. Author: Bernard Cornwell
| | It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it. Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
| | If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it. Author: Betty Carter
| | I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience. Author: Bianca Jagger
| | I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again. Author: Bill Bruford
| | If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. Author: Bill Dixon
| | We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice. Author: Bill Irwin
| | I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there. Author: Bill Kreutzmann
| | Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. Author: Bill Veeck
| | I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. Author: Bill Wyman
| | An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. Author: Billie Burke
| | It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. Author: Billy Bragg
| | That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really. Author: Billy Bragg
| | When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know? Author: Billy Eckstine
| | Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. Author: Billy Joel
| | An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. Author: Billy Wilder
| | Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Author: Billy Wilder
| | In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time. Author: Blair Underwood
| | There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. Author: Blaise Pascal
| | Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? Author: Bo Bennett
| | The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit. Author: Bob Newhart
| | 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. Author: Bob Saget
| | I don't want to be able to see the audience. Author: Bobby Darin
| | In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny. Author: Bobby Farrelly
| | We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience. Author: Bobby Farrelly
| | I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. Author: Bobby McFerrin
| | Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. Author: Bobby McFerrin
| | Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger. Author: Bobby Vinton
| | To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years. Author: Bobby Vinton
| | When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award. Author: Brad Paisley
| | We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. Author: Bradley Whitford
| | I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in. Author: Brandon Routh
| | All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too. Author: Brendan Fraser
| | The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. Author: Brendan Fraser
| | What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? Author: Brendan Fraser
| | Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience. Author: Brett Somers
| | It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all. Author: Brian Austin Green
| | We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. Author: Brian May
| | If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. Author: Brian Moore
| | I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. Author: Brion James
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. Author: Alan Lomax
| | I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium. Author: Alexander Kluge
| | Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. Author: Allen Klein
| | I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. Author: Andrew Eldritch
| | Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them. Author: Andrzej Wajda
| | On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. Author: Andrzej Wajda
| | Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. Author: Andrzej Wajda
| | Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make. Author: Andrzej Wajda
| | Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright. Author: Andy Partridge
| | Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. Author: Anna Held
| | I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else. Author: Antonio Banderas
| | Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern. Author: Antony Hewish
| | I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive. Author: Archie Shepp
| | I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing. Author: Artur Schnabel
| | Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that. Author: Atom Egoyan
| | Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology. Author: Avi Arad
| | I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet. Author: Bob Saget
| | We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. Author: Brad Bird
| | Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. Author: Brandon Routh
| | One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. Author: Branford Marsalis
| | There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience. Author: Brit Hume
| | I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her. Author: Britney Spears
| | I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. Author: Brittany Murphy
| | On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through. Author: Bruce Beresford
| | Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. Author: Bruce Beresford
| | When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen. Author: Bruce Beresford
| | A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now. Author: Bruce Boxleitner
| | In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either. Author: Bruce Boxleitner
| | In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with. Author: Bruce Dern
| | Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. Author: Bruce Paltrow
| | I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. Author: Bruce Springsteen
| | Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience. Author: Bruce Springsteen
| | The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. Author: Bruce Springsteen
| | When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s. Author: Bruce Springsteen
| | You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. Author: Bruce Springsteen
| | In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue. Author: Bryan Ferry
| | When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. Author: Bryan Ferry
| | I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. Author: Bryan White
| | If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. Author: Bryn Terfel
| | The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. Author: Buffalo Bill
| | Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. Author: Burt Ward
| | The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. Author: C. Everett Koop
| | Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. Author: Cab Calloway
| | My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. Author: Cab Calloway
| | The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. Author: Camille Paglia
| | A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
| | If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. Author: Carlisle Floyd
| | If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! Author: Carlisle Floyd
| | It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. Author: Carlisle Floyd
| | Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue. Author: Carmen Electra
| | We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. Author: Carroll O'Connor
| | How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me. Author: Carter Burwell
| | I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience. Author: Carter Burwell
| | Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation. Author: Carter Burwell
| | Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. Author: Casey Kasem
| | If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. Author: Casey Kasem
| | Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. Author: Casey Kasum
| | Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. Author: Casey Kasum
| | Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. Author: Cassandra Wilson
| | In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style. Author: Cat Stevens
| | When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. Author: Cedric Hardwicke
| | You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. Author: Celia Cruz
| | I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at. Author: Celine Dion
| | I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations. Author: Chad Hugo
| | I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more. Author: Chantal Kreviazuk
| | Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance. Author: Charles Bronson
| | It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. Author: Charles Ives
| | I was playing catch with the European audience. Author: Charles Olson
| | Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did. Author: Charley Pride
| | Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. Author: Charlie Chaplin
| | That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do? Author: Charlie Hunter
| | Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
| | One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand. Author: Cheryl James
| | You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous. Author: Chita Rivera
| | In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. Author: Chow Yun-Fat
| | It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. Author: Chris Cornell
| | As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs. Author: Chris Frantz
| | I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience. Author: Chris Matthews
| | My audience is much more center right, or centrist. Author: Chris Matthews
| | It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. Author: Christian Bale
| | You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. Author: Christian Bale
| | Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well! Author: Christine Lahti
| | An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. Author: Christopher Walken
| | And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that. Author: Christopher Walken
| | As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. Author: Christopher Walken
| | What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops. Author: Chubby Checker
| | Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. Author: Chuck Jones
| | Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. Author: Claudette Colbert
| | I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine. Author: Colin Mochrie
| | I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. Author: Conor Oberst
| | Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else. Author: Conrad Hall
| | The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. Author: Conrad Hall
| | I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details. Author: Crystal Chappell
| | As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are. Author: Cyndi Lauper
| | The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. Author: Cyril Cusack
| | It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. Author: D. W. Griffith
| | Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. Author: Dale Carnegie
| | Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Author: Dale Carnegie
| | When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied. Author: Dan Fouts
| | I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening. Author: Dan Hicks
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