Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

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

That’s the dilemma we have with the portals. I want a younger and bigger audience, but I don’t have an instant messenger or e-mail to build as much of an audience on my own Web...

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.

me, and I believe everyone in the audience, could not conceive of a sane person doing these things.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

American actresses have more problems than I do; I’m lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

Don’t dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work...

If you try a joke a second time and nobody laughs, don’t tell a different joke—tell different people.

When you’re on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn’t exactly a sound – it’s a hum, like the streets.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn’t they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is...

Being on CMT gives us the freedom to acknowledge that, because our audience is by and large not a cynical audience.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

That audience was absolutely crazy. And I knew they would be. There had never been anything like that. It was absolutely crazy. They couldn’t get enough of that.

There’s a mystical quality the audience finds really appealing.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

They’ve brought in some new visions and a different kind of sensibility, and also an audience that they’ve cultivated themselves.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

The reason I’m an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response – so these people who come up to you in...

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to.

That’s the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they’ve never been before. The details, that’s what the...

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It’s very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories we’ve never told. Some African tribes believe if you were...

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don’t want to ever be that.

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. ‘My Humps?’ C’mon!

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience’s face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I need space between me and the audience – and the more space the better.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the...

I’d love to go back and do theater. There’s nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you’re just breaking in and that’s working, and that’s – you’re one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience...

Kitabu cha ‘Kolonia Santita’ ni kitabu cha wasomi na wasiokuwa wasomi, watu wa mijini na watu wa vijijini, watu wazima, vijana na watoto. Hadhira ya kitabu hiki ni jamii nzima ya Tanzania.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

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

We’re neither happy nor worried about it. The replacement program is doing what it’s supposed to and drawing an audience.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

I sang ‘American Pie’ a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It’s a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the ’60s – well, I was frankly surprised by the show’s success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

Assuming Sandberg’s advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career...

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.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of – just being there.

I’m trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.