“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.” IfsRoomsPracticeAudiencePiecesFrontsProveTapeLiving Room Author:Dave Van Ronk
“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.” NeedsSocialRoomsTalkingAudienceLike YouLockedKeep Talking Author:Jonathan Stroud
“More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.” WantFeelsKindFeelingsFunRoomsAudienceKingsInvolvedGet UpHanging OutLiving Room Author:Kate Voegele
“I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment.” PeopleWantMomentsTogetherCausesRoomsBreakAudienceNiceWallCommunicateBreaking Down Author:Aurora Aksnes
“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.” SometimesChoicesProcessRoomsNumbersAudienceStageFrontsEventsDeterminedExperimentsRehearsalChoices You Make Author:Ben Kingsley
“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.” IfsMeanRoomsHalfAudienceStandingEmptyMeetingsSmellTheatreAtmosphereRestaurantsHalf EmptyAuditoriums Author:David Ogilvy
“Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.” GivingEnergyRoomsTalkingAudienceGiving Back Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.” StillsImportantDoneShowsNextEnergyRoomsTalkingAudienceSittingGuestsTalk ShowsExchanging Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.” LittlesReasonPassionUnderstandingRoomsAudienceTeacherMankindEffectsWillingHigherDegreesHighestReflectionAffectionFancyTouchingVulgarGrossEloquenceGeneralitiesStationaryAthenians Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.” WantUseMovingRoomsAudienceIssuesSeriesComplexesDebateOpponentsThrustDiscussingSubtletyConvoluted Author:Alan Lightman
“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.” ThinkingKnowsWritingWellsImportantReadingStuffRoomsAudienceFrontsFlowDown AndSentencesRhythmEditorsNew YorkersRewriting Author:David Sedaris
“Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.” WritingBelieveArtDoneArtistOrderI BelieveRoomsAudienceSolitudePerformancesBarsLocksWork DoneCorkPerformance Art Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.” WayLightDarkRoomsAudienceTelevisionUncomfortableDark Room Author:Ron White
“If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.” IfsWantRoomsAudienceQuietTensionAbortionShut UpSpectacular Author:Lewis Black
“When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.” PeopleHardStoriesShowsLinesRoomsAudienceHeardTelevisionJokesMiracleCornersBrandsPlotSophisticatedBrand NewYour Room Author:Betty White
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsMatterHandsMightSpeakBlackRoomsAudienceFiveGenerationsDiscoveryLifetimeSpeciesTalesScoreThinkerDocumentsMonumentTorchesSuccessorsHuman SpeciesInforming Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.” ChildrenWantedUsedMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageFrontsMy FamilyBallerina Author:Lucy Hawking
“Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.” LooksSometimesEyeForgetRoomsAudienceCornersContactPerformingEye Contact Author:Laura Marano
“The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.” OpportunityPerfectRoomsAudienceInternetInfiniteResponseStormDebateCombinationDiscussionProductivePerpetualAnonymityBickeringPerfect StormHeckling Book:Dawn of the Dumb Source: Dawn of the Dumb
“In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike” ArtistCommunityRoomsAudienceStrangeTraditionClassicSongwritersNashvilleAustinBluebird Author:Christopher Cross
“As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.” LightActorsRoomsAudienceOpennessAtoms Author:Tim Crouch
“I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music. Within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.” KnowsMeanDifferentCountryWholeGuyLinesRoomsMusicSupportAudienceStyleColdStonesFloridaBuddyReally MeanGeorgiaBrosBrandyStone Cold Author:Miranda Lambert
“When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.” FeelsLooksRealPlayShowsRoomsAudienceRiskConversationCurrentsListsIntimateArenaVenuesReal Conversation Author:Jason Mraz
“It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.” KindArtMadeSchoolRoomsAudiencePaintingI RealizedArt School Author:John Currin
“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
“There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!” ShowsDreamRoomsAudienceStageJokesLettersHypocrisyLiving RoomNightclubs Author:Johnny Carson
“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
“What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.” FeelingsRoomsCommonAudienceShareStageCollectivesConcertsPerformersUniting Author:Joel Plaskett
“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.” IfsGivingPlayProblemFilmActorsSoundSidesRoomsPowerfulAudienceToo MuchHugeConversationGive MeAddEditingToolbox Author:Dave McKean
“I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.” TryingFactsHandsAbleEnjoySimpleAbilityRoomsAudienceFrontsSceneLaughterHarderCamerasPartnersFreakTimingDisbeliefEditsSuspensionControl FreakSuspension Of Disbelief Author:Jonathan Groff
“I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a room by myself, to interact with the audience the way I would relate to them if we were in my kitchen drinking tea and making up silly songs. Maybe the way to get past the fear of being ourselves is simply to try it more often.” IfsWayTryingPastSongRoomsAudienceStageDrinkingSillyTeaRelateKitchenMaking UpDrinking Tea Author:Bobby McFerrin
“The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.” PeopleHumansCharacterCan DoHuman BeingsRoomsAudienceOne ThingJourneyEmotionalSmartOnlineSatisfyingSmart People Author:Frank Spotnitz
“You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel like the audience in America that are watching. You're really limited, if you walk into a room and you can just tell stories about that. So, we've been really blessed.” IfsWantFeelsLooksStoriesAmericaWalksRoomsAudienceBlessed Author:Greg Berlanti