“With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.” PeopleWayMayLittlesStillsPlayHomeIndividualAudienceComedyFiguresJokesTrickyNew YorkersInsiders Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.” FeelsMayLittlesFactsWaitingPoorAudienceStageJudgingAspectPerformers Book:How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams Source: How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams
“As a moviemaker, I'm able to have a little impact on the socio-political landscape and to reach a large audience around the world. That inspires me. That is something I'm inspired by and it's what I inspire to.” WorldLittlesAblePoliticalAudienceInspireImpactInspiredAround The WorldLandscape Author:Larry Charles
“I've always thought of characters like advent calendars. You have Christmas and you have all the little doors over the windows and every day you're allowed to open one more as it gets towards Christmas and you see more and more about what's inside that house.I remember as a kid being fascinated by that and I've always thought of my character as a little bit like that. I like to have secrets and slowly let those secrets out to the audience, sometimes never let them out, but let them see as you open the shutters, open and see a little bit more of a character.” LittlesSometimesCharacterKidsRememberHouseBitsSecretAudienceDoorsLittle BitWindowFascinatedCalendarsAdventShutters Author:Jeremy Irons
“Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksLittlesRealBigsFilmActorsBitsViewsAudienceHonestHonestyTvsMembersLittle BitTheaterBig Movie Author:Elisabeth Moss
“There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingLittlesEndsWholeShowsOrderAudienceJokesCarefulBoringListsRough Author:Demetri Martin
“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.” YearsLittlesBookSelfStuffNumbersAudienceStageSellsDollarsSillySellingPocketsCentsPublishingMelbourneSilly Stuff Author:Andy Griffiths
“When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.” LooksKindLittlesI CanDifferentAudienceJokesEdgesCrowdsComplicatedHandleHarsh Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.” ChildrenLittlesLongWholeSidesAudienceMembersSittingWhole LifeEscaping Author:Woody Allen
“I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesSoulUseRunningCertainBitsNaturalStepsAudienceNiceStageFitLittle BitInstrumentsConnectedMy SoulPianoPerformersAnchorsMicrophones Author:Sara Bareilles
“From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLittlesStoriesBigsMovingAudiencePeriodsDramaHungerNostalgiaRebelSentimentality Author:Andrew Davies
“Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.” FirstsLittlesYoungAudienceMagazinesYoung Writers Author:Robert Morgan
“I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.” IfsShouldBelieveLittlesFilmI BelieveBitsAudienceCrazyConversationMembersLittle BitShould HaveLike MeCinema Author:Michael Fassbender
“I have never seen any of my work, I can't watch it because I am ultra critical. We all have little mannerisms that people may love about us, but can be embarrassing. Perhaps we got teased about them as kids and we may not like them ourselves. That is what it is like for me, I can't look at myself on screen even if the audience loves what I am doing.” PeopleIfsLooksMayLittlesI CanKidsWatchesAudienceCriticalScreensEmbarrassingUltrasMannerisms Author:Josh Peck
“One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.” LittlesAudienceInteraction Author:Ethan Hawke
“You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.” FeelsYearsLittlesMadeTogetherFacesDarknessAudienceCrazyStageHairAssNecksAppropriateNutsMemorialGoing Crazy Author:Eric Idle
“Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.” IfsKnowsLittlesMadeTwoProblemBigsMistakeWorryAudienceMinutesFrontsPicksSafetyNervesSitcomBig ProblemsSafety Net Author:John Cleese
“There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.” PeopleLittlesMillionsAudienceMiddleTvsEntertainmentApartmentHutsThailandDubai Author:Patricia Arquette
“I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.” ThinkingLittlesAudienceAdultsHollywoodAppealsHollywood Movies Author:Joe Swanberg
“I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?” IfsThinkingLittlesSometimesCharacterFoundBitsTermAudienceHonestLittle BitExcitingCamerasRapMediumsBeing Honest Author:Dean Israelite
“I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work."” ThinkingLittlesPlayCharacterFilmGamesQualityAudiencePiecesDirectorsResponseLovelyLittle ThingsWowImitation Author:Mark Strong
“I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.” PeopleIfsTryingLittlesHardBitsAudienceCuttingLittle BitLaughterJokesHarderProducersAnxious Author:John Cleese
“I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.” LittlesPersonsI CanRememberAudienceExcitementTouchedThrillShiverEncores Author:Zell Miller
“I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"” MenLooksLittlesKidsAudienceDown AndLittle KidPoisoning Author:DJ Quik