Browsing Topic Best Audience Quotes

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.

To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody’s demands.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I’m kind of an introvert, so I really do have to get over some anxiety to get on stage and connect with an audience. Once I do, it’s amazing, but it is a bit of a struggle.

I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.

Why are atoms so small? … Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.

We have audiences that seem to be embracing whether they’ve heard of the characters or not.

Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

Women can’t be afraid to look like action heroes. It’s not always pretty, but when it’s on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don’t — You hope they don’t leave the theatre thinking that was nice…now where’s the cab?’

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You’ll get the audience’s attention by pausing.

The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you’re unsure of where the audience is.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

The audience, that’s who I care about.

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It’s easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence–such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

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.

The audience is never wrong.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it’s the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You’ll get to a point where you can say: ‘I can relate to that’, ‘I know that’, ‘I don’t have to make that up’ and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you’ve been there.

Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…. To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

[President George W.] Bush – never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters – is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

I don’t get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.