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.
Christian Bale

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.
Christian Bale

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis

It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
Paul Auster

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

I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.
David Coverdale

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
David Coverdale

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
David Coverdale

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary Oldman

I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine

I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
Amanda Seyfried

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
Matthew Vaughn

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
Brendan Fraser

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
Farrah Fawcett

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann