Audience Quotes

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
Joan Jett

Love, Best, Feeling

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.
Simon Mainwaring

Try, Tell, Interested

In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.
Simon Mainwaring

Best, Business, Today

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly

Friends, Between, Tell

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Pete Townshend

Work, Pain, Said

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
Jackie Chan

Change, Fight, Treat

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
Martha Plimpton

Experience, Single, Living

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
Denzel Washington

Work, Hard, Validation

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson

Living, Else, Here

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Jo Brand

Work, Felt, Worse

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.
Ang Lee

Good, Fight, Show

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Pete Townshend

Pretending, Continue, Pretend

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Stephen Sondheim

Changes, Written

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.
Christopher Walken

Fun, Different, Play

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.
Lawrence Welk

Love, Live, Planning

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk

Forget, Laugh, Words

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
Buffalo Bill

Learning, Real, Between

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

Science, Movies, Human

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
Billy Connolly

Saying, Behind, Hear

The audience is the barometer of the truth.
Barbra Streisand

Truth, Barometer

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Christopher Walken

Person, Play, Become

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Serious, Dead, Making

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
David Coverdale

Human, Leave, Stage

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Good, Art, Young

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
Anne Lamott

Love, Funny, Someone

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan

Family, Different, Two

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
Jerry Lewis

Work, Hurt, Pain

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf

Off, Once, Comedy

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.
Billy Joel

Music, Money, Yourself

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