“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
“Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that."” WantFirstsLooksChildrenRememberNightAudienceSeeingGroupsFrontsSittingFirst TimeTheaterScaryScreensHorribleHalloweenInteractingJamieGroup Of Friends Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.” FirstsWellsAudienceHeardFiguresDrinkAuthorityFirst TimeWineCupsMeant To BeGlobes Author:Neil MacGregor
“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.” FirstsCharacterShowsDarkAudiencePercentHundredFirst TimeSpotsFiftyIntroducingSixtyLit Author:Peter Stormare
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.” WantWritingFirstsBelievePlayHappensActorsStuffActingAudienceDoorsSceneDirectorsHappeningsFirst TimePlaygroundsGood Directors Author:Martin Landau
“I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.” FirstsFeelingsRememberDifferencesForgetAudienceStageFirst TimeNever ForgetCurtainsForget ItTemperature Author:Sarah Paulson
“You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.” KnowsFirstsLastsAudiencePiecesFirst TimeHearingLast Time Author:Robert Shaw
“I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.” WantTryingFirstsLooksKindStillsLawNightAudienceStageGoes OnFirst TimeMeetingsBeing YourselfIn-laws Author:B. B. King
“The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."” PeopleThinkingFirstsSaidI CanWholeRememberFacesReadingAudienceSeeingFirst TimeIntroductionWhisperingSigningUgh Author:Adrian Tomine
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.” PeopleFeelsFirstsTwoWholeSexMusicAudienceFirst TimeChillBeing In LoveTouch Someone Author:Janis Joplin
“Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.” FirstsMightNightSongAudienceAliveFirst TimeHearingEvery NightNew Experiences Author:John Petrucci
“I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart.” WorldWayFirstsHeartHomeTogetherCertainFeltAudienceMy HeartSafeUnderstoodFirst TimeFlowProfoundSensesEngagedEleganceBusiness World Author:Idara Victor
“The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.” FirstsMayDifferentAudienceSeeingStagePicksFirst TimeDancer Author:Lucinda Childs
“Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsAudienceWiseTypeFirst TimeImpactResponseHonestly Author:Ab-Soul
“I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.” FirstsPlayStarsAudienceLaughingFiveFrontsFirst TimeGuestsEpisodesSitcomGuest Stars Author:Eric McCormack
“You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsFactsShowsLastsChanceAudienceFirst TimeExcitingTouchedLast Time Author:Judd Apatow
“One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.” KindActingAudienceFirst TimeWitness Author:Billy Crudup
“The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the first time. You can change it by just a look or things you're not even conscious of, but it's such a full immersion.” AudienceConsciousFirst Time Author:Gretchen Mol
“A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly, and creating the playroom, and then they'll get stuff that they don't expect, and can't even direct. All the audience wants to believe is that whatever is happening, it is happening for the first time. They want to see the people within the work exchanging dialogue and action in that moment. There are not a lot of actors that can do that.” PeopleBelieveMomentsActionAudienceFirst TimeDirectDialogue Author:Martin Landau
“If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge.” PeopleSongAudienceInternetFirst TimeGood ThingsSurprisePerforming Author:Richard Thompson
“I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.” TryingAudienceFirst TimeMeetingsLife ExperienceStereotypePreconceptions Author:Mike Leigh
“I'm interested in cinematic realism. I think there is a rich potential to bring to audiences people they haven't seen before, that they are discovering a bit like how we discover people in life for the first time. There's an authenticity that can't be denied.” PeopleThinkingAudienceRichFirst TimeAuthenticity Author:Matthew Porterfield
“When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.” RealActionNightTechnologyAudienceMagicWallTerribleFirst TimeElectionEmpoweringDistractionUsers Author:Andrew Morse
“Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.” IfsFirstsSaidEnoughFallVoiceAttentionAudienceMetsActivityLowsFirst TimeStandingLet MeBlueDrinkingRoundsJeansEmbarrassmentAnnoyedStanding ThereTimbreKegsOutdoor Activities Book:Along for the Ride Source: Along for the Ride
“There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.” WayTryingFirstsPersonsImportantFacesFallDifficultTermMy OwnAudienceFirst TimeStatementsCompromiseFlatsEmbarrassingGreat American Author:Tom Waits