“I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.” PeopleKnowsI CanAudienceImagineComedianTailors Author:Colin Quinn
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.” ArtWholeIndividualAudienceImagineArt IsIndividuality Book:The Shape of Content Source: The Shape of Content
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“Then to deliver the message to the audience is our mission. I tried to imagine, if they killed my family, daughters, I would do anything to protect my family. It's insane but that's the situation everybody was in.” IfsSituationAudienceImagineProtectMessagesDaughterMy FamilyMissionsInsaneProtect My Family Author:Miyavi
“I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn at an Italian restaurant. I ran on stage, did my show, and then some guy in the audience threatened to kill me because he didn't like my joke. Instead of talking to him, I just ran off stage. And then, because I was late, the owner of the restaurant threatened to kill me. And I was 19 years old and so scared that I almost started crying. But, I've done every gig you can imagine, in every state.” YearsStatesDoneShowsGuyTalkingAudienceImagineStageCryCoupleLateJokesScaredRanRestaurantsOwnersBroadsItalianOne TimeThreatenedKill MeGigsBrooklynBad ExperiencesTalking To Him Author:Nick Swardson
“I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.” PeoplePersonsSometimesCasesAudienceImaginePostsTweet Author:Mira Gonzalez
“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.” IfsNeedsMadeSometimesMatterAbleFilmNextLosesAudienceToo MuchImagineSubjectsTypeMembersDirectGenreSensitiveImagine ThatSubject Matter Author:Steven Spielberg
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsActingAudienceImagineHappeningsFunctionReal Things Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.” PeopleKnowsBigsCareCertainAudienceImagineSeriousTasksLaysDon't CareJournalismJournalistCompellingAdrift Author:Alain de Botton
“What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.” WorldWayWritingTryingMeanSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmAudienceImagineDiscoveringDiscovering Things Author:Christopher Nolan
“I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.” IfsWritingI CanActorsActingAudienceImagineReader Author:Joan Didion
“You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.” IfsThinkingWritingMatterMomentsShowsSeemsAudienceImagineTalentNo Matter WhatThat MomentStableImagine That Author:Joan Didion
“I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.” WayYearsMadeStillsFilmFunWatchesAudienceLaughingImagineTheaterImagine ThatAmusing Author:Sydney Pollack
“In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.” FactsArtistSongAudienceImagineMusician Author:John Dyer Baizley
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?” ThinkingKindSoundTalkingAudienceImagineEmotional Author:Pete Docter
“I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.” IfsWantTryingSometimesAbleCoursesAudienceImagineLuckyLuckLikes Author:Francis Bacon
“As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here." And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be... frankly, to be subtle.” PeopleIfsWayTryingLooksWould BeBeautifulActorsSidesStepsAudienceImagineMembersAppreciatePerformancesInstinctSubtlePanicHam Author:Edward Norton
“Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldHumansRealizingAudienceKnow HowGoneStudyImagineBandYeahWarmAidsAll TimeQueensIntimateBarriersControlledImagine ThatVocalStadiumsStood UpMercury Author:Dave Grohl