“I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.” PeopleIfsWayTryingMeanMadeDifferentEnoughNextProcessMillionsAudienceLaughingComedyFansJokesVersionsGiantsTestingTailors Author:Seth Rogen
“I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.” PeopleGivingFilmAsksSidesDarkAudienceProudReflectionTheaterResponseCommunicateAppealsCommunionPreferenceThrilling Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.” PeopleKnowsI CanSoulThreeNextBornAudienceKnow HowThousandObjectivesMy SoulThirtyNext Time Author:Mike Tyson
“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."” PeopleWantPersonsDreamCasesAudienceFailingBoringPerformersThrowingTomatoesBoring Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentActionAudienceHorrorDifferent WaysTensionFreak Author:Robert Rodriguez
“People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.” PeopleKindDifferentReasonCertainQualityAudienceDrugMassTheaterDifferent Kinds Author:Mike White
“That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.” PeopleAudienceHonestResponseBeing HonestMisunderstanding Author:Todd Solondz
“It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.” PeopleIfsWorldWayDoeIndividualEnjoyDifficultTalkingAudienceLaughingYellingNot TalkingGood Laugh Author:David Cross
“I learned how to let other performers have their moment. A lot of people can't do that. They just chew the scenery and steamroll over their scene partners. It doesn't make you look better in the long run to do that. You have to have balance in your scene. If it's somebody else's moment, let them have it. Learn how to be generous. Plus, it makes the audience hate you.” PeopleIfsLooksLongMomentsRunningHateAudienceBalanceScenePartnersGenerousPlusPerformersLong RunsHate YouScenery Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksCarePainLastsAmericaFunLinesAudienceHappenedHugeScaredDon't CareI Don't CareHaving FunAwakeStayingLast YearSpectrumIntrospectiveDealing With It Author:Wes Craven
“I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.” PeopleFactsFilmCitiesAudienceAfrican AmericanInner City Author:Wes Craven
“The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsStoriesFilmRealizingAudienceSeeingTheaterBunchRemarkableScreamCampfire Author:Wes Craven
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.” PeopleIfsPersonsI CanDoneHelpingJobsRoomsAudienceTerribleStandardsSpeakers Author:Simon Sinek
“Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsLooksDifferentCausesAudienceSeeingDifferent WaysBallerina Author:Misty Copeland
“I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.” PeopleThinkingAgeYoungAudienceFansUltimateComplimentHitchhiking Author:John Waters
“People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.” PeopleLyingAudienceSawsSmell Author:Joe Rogan
“I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.” PeopleWantKidsAudienceCollegeLife ExperienceOlder People Author:Joe Rogan
“I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.” PeopleThinkingHardReasonNightAudienceStagePhonesGet UpMore TimePerformersReally GreatBathroomTurned Off Author:Demetri Martin
“In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.” PeopleIfsBookEnoughShowsRoomsAudienceComedyDirectorsTheaterCastsAgentsComedianGood EnoughCastingStand Up ComedyStand Up Comedian Author:Jim Jefferies
“You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantYearsKindHas BeensTermBehindsAudienceTheoryPerformancesTheaterMovedValuableStorytellingInstantFeedbackLive PerformanceLive Theater Author:George Lucas
“The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingRealCharacterAudienceWonderfulResponseGreat ThingsEnthusiastic Author:Cassandra Clare
“What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.” PeopleFeelsSoulShowsFeelingsNightLove IsAudienceListeningBandRefuseMy SoulBusEvery NightFeedingTouringBad Times Author:Christina Perri
“I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.” PeopleShowsNightAudienceTake MeEvery Night Author:Rob Bell
“I think it's cool that people kind of look at me as one of the originators of online video and one of the pioneers of YouTube because I've worked really hard to build an audience and make content that I'm proud of.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindHardAudienceProudVideoOnlineLook At MeYoutubePioneers Author:Shane Dawson
“Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWritingAudienceClearUniversalNonsenseElegantTransparent Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece in Strasburg, and it works. Sometimes you're commissioned to do a piece somewhere else and it doesn't work, but then it moves to another city, the people embrace it, and becomes part of them. You just misjudged the needs of the people. Art is about giving people material and things to work with to fulfill whatever needs they have.” PeopleNeedsGivingArtImportantSometimesMovingCitiesAudiencePiecesMaterialsArt IsConceptsEmbraceSiteSomewhere Else Author:Lawrence Weiner
“One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" [movie], the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.” PeopleFirstsFilmMovingProcessAudienceGoneOne ThingCrazyStreetsMembersMoving ForwardUpliftingEnjoyedPirate Author:Johnny Depp
“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsReasonCharacterChallengesLinesWalksAcceptingBreakAudienceBattleProveEdgesBad ThingsJustifiedGood Person Author:Steven Knight
“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.” PeopleShowsHoursHalfTalkingAudienceMinutesMissing Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?” PeopleWayMotherLeftFunAudienceMissingInterviewsCousinMy Cousin Author:Oprah Winfrey
“It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.” PeopleCertainSexInterestingAudienceElements Author:Lou Reed
“Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].” PeopleCharacterWantedCoursesSpaceAudienceDrawsBiggerNarrative Author:Miranda July
“There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.” PeopleShouldWellsHas BeensEnoughTogetherFightingAudienceRecordsObjectsCornersRingsStoppingRefereeMismatch Author:Ferdie Pacheco
“I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.” PeopleNeedsHumansPersonsSometimesFeelingsChoicesEmotionMistakeAudienceStageProjectsFellowsAngryDisappointmentDisappointedContemptDissatisfactionExaggeratedContemptuousTheatricsAngry Person Author:George Carlin
“I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to hold my head. And then at the end, they have to kick me into the audience and the audience has to keep me up for at least three hits or you have to start the whole service over. No cradling it - I want legit sets.” PeopleWantEndsWholeHumorFunnyThreeTalkingAudienceDown AndKicksNecksFuneralTalking About MeLegit Author:Daniel Tosh
“I wanted to make sure that my act was family friendly for tonight, but I don't have babies. So I thought that maybe I could pretend that I had babies and that way I could appeal to the people in the audience who have babies and to the people who like to pretend that they have babies.” PeopleWayHumorWantedFunnyAudienceBabyAppealsTonightFriendlyFamily Friends Author:Kristen Schaal
“9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealityI BelieveChallengesNumbersStepsAudienceFailingBuildingEntrepreneurshipTargetHarshNicheTarget AudienceHarsh RealityBuilding Something Author:Jeet Banerjee
“I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingMindAbleAudienceGroupsChinaSmall Groups Author:Bei Dao
“I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.” PeopleDifferentUseOrderAudienceFansDifferent PeoplesTempoDifferent Music Author:Sizzla
“Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about communicating science to the public, and it's clear that most scientists just don't get it. They can't be bothered to talk to real people. Nobody will care about your issues if the price they have to pay is listening to a long lecture from Morton the science bug.” PeopleIfsLongHas BeensRealCarePayAudienceIssuesClearStupidListeningScientistBlameCommunicateDebateLazyFascinatingShallowBugsLecturesBothered Author:Mark Powell
“[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.” PeopleWorldPlayAudiencePlaywrightChekhov Author:Robert Dessaix
“Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.” PeopleChildrenCharacterAudienceEmotionalVery Inspirational Author:Jan Brett
“Sometimes you'll play, like, a large venue - maybe an outdoor venue or something - where it's so big that you can see all of the disinterested people. You see the audience, but then behind the audience you see people eating ice cream, going for a walk.” PeopleSometimesPlayBigsWalksBehindsAudienceEatingIceCreamIce CreamVenuesDisinterestedEating Ice Cream Author:Brian Regan
“On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.” PeopleAudienceStageFeeding Author:Colton Dixon
“Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.” PeopleAbleAudienceSingingMics Author:Willam Belli
“I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.” PeopleThinkingFactsArtistEmotionAudienceLaughingCryExcitedFrustratedWorth ItMaking People Laugh Author:Elisha Cuthbert
“My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.” PeopleAudiencePerformancesPalacesAmerican MusicUptight Author:Iggy Pop
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantCharacterAudienceComplexes Author:Judith Light