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Related the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. TRENT REZNOR The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech STEPHEN KEAGUE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I thought I stayed with the program and with the character, and the audience was great, ... Grease. EVAN LYSACEK We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little ... MICHAEL RYAN I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here... ETHEL MERMAN I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotion... JEFF NICHOLS The same sermon can be preached to the same audience, many times over, in the same manner, and the H... PR. PADDICK VAN ZYL We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), ... ANDREW FLETCHER The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix'... JOEL SILVER Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally.... HERB ALPERT I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience. PATRICK WARBURTON That was about the first time ever I could take the audience response seriously. JOE HARRISON I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics. LONI LOVE I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the C... CARLENE CARTER If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be th... EVA AMURRI I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course,... SISSY SPACEK I really enjoy connecting with the audience. CAROL BURNETT Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the... GENEVIEVE GORDER I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, ... MARK WAID On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with u... ERIC MCCORMACK For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and heari... RANDY WEST My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. DAVID CASSIDY Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience... GARY OWENS Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking throug... HASKELL WEXLER We had long discussions about this, because at the beginning I was a little bit reluctant, because I... FRANK MARSHALL I was playing catch with the European audience. CHARLES OLSON It gave us a chance to first try a recording of the songs in the afternoon without an audience, then... BING CROSBY My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. DAVID MAMET You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets i... BRITTANY HOWARD I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a... ADAM DRIVER The Dove spot and the spots targeted to the Hispanic population show that advertisers are looking mo... KATHY BROWN I remember that Jerry was kind of cocky, like he always is, but that he was also pretty gracious to ... GARY SCHULTZ I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audien... AL LEWIS I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or w... DAVEED DIGGS At this point, whether the audience has trained us, or we've trained the audience, we're closer to t... DOUGLAS STARK quite simply, they have a captive audience. CLARK JOHNSON I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black ... EUZHAN PALCY I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the a... QUENTIN TARANTINO Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning. ALEXIS OHANIAN I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one... LUCILLE BALL I get a lot out of a show when I know that I don't know anyone in the audience and don't think the a... WILL OLDHAM I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share s... JET LI I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the au... JESSICA CHASTAIN When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's n... BILL ENGVALL We wanted a college-age audience. The material works well for an adult nightclub audience, but it re... REBECCA REYNOLDS Lime offers a uniquely targeted and passionate audience that represents the growing consumer trend t... ERIC SAHL There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in rel... WOLE SOYINKA That's the dilemma we have with the portals. I want a younger and bigger audience, but I don't have ... LARRY KRAMER My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. CAB CALLOWAY I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my ... CAROLINE RHEA Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience. ROBERT BLAKE It's an honor to have this job and, to me, the greatest thing is to be up on stage and to feel that ... RICHARD THOMPSON The audience has always been my best director. EARTHA KITT The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte... TAYLOR SHERIDAN But I think the audience is ready for that. GUY RITCHIE He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this ... FRANK DARABONT The principal thrust of advertising is reaching a specific audience. A sports audience is not necess... NEAL PILSON And, ... I still draw very well with listeners 18-34. We've been very competitive over the years wit... ART LABOE I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking t... MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO They've kind of surrounded him by some old friends of the audience, ... so that the audience will fe... BETTY WHITE Sosa was great because he appealed not only to the Hispanic audience, but he appealed to the African... BOB CRAMER I like shaking people up. I like roaming the audience and talking with someone. DALE BROWN I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever ha... BILLY GRAHAM There are some places where we speak directly to the audience. But there is not audience participati... JOSEPH GRAVES I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn... DAVE SIM I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, wi... ALAN BENNETT The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. RANDY PAUSCH First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu... ERIC ANDRE For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from t... MICHAEL BAY I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I ... QUENTIN TARANTINO The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. ALBEN W. BARKLEY As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo... TONY KUSHNER When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I w... CONRAD VEIDT The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. ALBEN W. BARKLEY To say Roman Reigns isn't connecting with an audience means you're not listening. I've w... JOHN CENA All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that aud... KATIE COURIC I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up... TOM RILEY I can never wink at the audience. MADS MIKKELSEN We seem to have hit a core with our audience, the baby boomer generation that is basically taking ov... JEANIE LINDERS Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. ALFRED HITCHCOCK The majority of my audience has always been women. TEDDY PENDERGRASS I produced audio editions of 'Beneath' and 'Kronos' primarily to grow my audience. I... JEREMY ROBINSON If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. NORBERT LEO BUTZ We also give ourselves room if the audience isn't quite to our forecast. Until all the details come ... DOUG BROOKS I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. What... JENNIFER JASON LEIGH It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audi... SHAUN TAN I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for a... BIRDY We skated with our soul, with our heart and you can see the audience was with us. ALEXEI TIKHONOV I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half o... DAMON LINDELOF I don't enjoy sparring with the audience. It devastates me. JANEANE GAROFALO I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audienc... ZELJKO IVANEK I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience crie... FRANK CAPRA So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share... RACHEL MADDOW Being able to offer a performing songwriter the opportunity for a spot on Mountain Stage -- with its... GAR RAGLAND I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a s... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astr... BILL KREUTZMANN I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,... DEBORAH COX I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamp... VERNE TROYER
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