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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -- Walter Lippmann
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. -- William O. Douglas
Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen -- Sara Quin
I was playing catch with the European audience. -- Charles Olson
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. -- Walt Whitman
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. -- Edward Tufte
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. -- Gustav Mahler
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage -- David Lee Roth
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. -- Dorothy Sarnoff
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. -- David Cassidy
I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny. -- Dane Cook
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. -- Oliver Goldsmith
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. -- Mary Renault
Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience. -- Amit Kalantri
I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play. -- Christian Camargo
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. -- Rebecca West
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. -- Shirley Booth
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. -- Dale Carnegie
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. -- Red Barber
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. -- Dick Cavett
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience. -- Gavin Rossdale
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. -- Michael Winterbottom
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval. -- Pamela Anderson
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. -- Jack Lemmon
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. -- George Carlin
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. -- D. H. Lawrence
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. -- Cedric Hardwicke
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. -- Jean Baudrillard
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. -- Paul Gauguin
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. -- Dale Carnegie
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience. -- Dan Reynolds
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. -- Frank Capra
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. -- John Henrik Clarke
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too. -- Shirley Temple
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. -- Chuck Berry
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. -- Esther Williams
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. -- Bill Wyman
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. -- John Boorman
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus. -- David Antin
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. -- Bruce Springsteen
The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. -- Rowan Atkinson
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. -- Michael Bay
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect. -- Katy Perry
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. -- Vikram Seth
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. -- Lewis Thomas
I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. -- Dwayne Johnson
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person. -- Virginia Postrel
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. -- Steven Spielberg
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. -- Steven Spielberg
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. -- Jill Soloway
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. -- Lee Hall
Genius requires an audience. -- Jacqueline Carey
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. -- Scott Turow
The audience is never wrong. -- Carol Burnett
You cannot fool an audience. -- Marian Anderson
There's an audience for everything. -- Davy Jones
The audience's expectations are ever-present. -- Ian Mckellen
Never stop listening to your audience. -- David Copperfield
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
I'm the audience's representative on earth. -- Michael Caine
I love hearing my audience breathe. -- Adele
That audience embrace has unbelievable power. -- June Havoc
My parents were my worst audience. -- Richard Lewis
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. -- Walter Savage Landor
I love to entertain an audience. -- George Peppard
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence. -- Marvin Hamlisch
I have to satisfy my audience. -- J. B. Smoove
Not an audience but a habit -- Gian Carlo Menotti
You want the audience to be uncomfortable. -- Richard Thompson
You have to keep surprising your audience. -- Shane Black
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white. -- Zoot Sims
I like getting requests from audience members. -- Steve Forbert
An actor without an audience is rehearsing. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
You are always cheating for the audience. -- William Friedkin
For 45 years I've worked without an audience. -- Richard Lewis
The audience requires not information but drama. -- David Mamet
I always take the audience into account. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The audience wants you present, not perfect. -- Darren LaCroix
You've got to write for your audience. -- John Ratzenberger
I can't imagine working without and audience. -- Bea Arthur
I do not write for an audience -- Leon Uris
I do not write for an audience. -- Leon Uris
Know yourself -- and know your audience. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
I don't write for a particular audience. -- August Wilson
I have to grow with my audience. -- Ice T
I have this whole new audience now. -- Katey Sagal
The audience, that's who I care about. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I think the audience likes to be entertained. -- Bray Wyatt
moms aren't the best audience for medication humor. -- John Green
Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience. -- Ken Danby
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. -- Anna Held
Take the time to understand your audience's concerns. -- Tony Robbins
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor." -- David Levithan
The bigger the audience, the better with comedy. -- Jimmy Carr
Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself. -- Bob Fosse
You either entertain an audience or you don't. -- Twyla Tharp
Music is a performance and needs the audience. -- Michael Tippett
When I'm reaching an audience, I feel it. -- Hubert Sumlin
The audience is the barometer of the truth. -- Barbra Streisand
There's no such thing as a passive audience. -- Chip Heath
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. -- Herb Alpert
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience. -- Martin Scorsese
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. -- Alfred Hitchcock
I'm not even sure who my audience is. -- Tom Verlaine
Your audience teaches you how to be funny. -- Woody Allen
I'm dragging the audience to hell with me -- Jerry Lee Lewis
My audience is going to die before I do. -- Sarah Vowell
What questions do I want my audience to ask? -- Chip Heath
I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red. -- Kurtwood Smith
I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. -- Mel Torme
Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me. -- Mo Huilan
I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience. -- Brandy Clark
There is always something wonderful about a live audience. -- Tessanne Chin
My audience is much more center right, or centrist. -- Chris Matthews
Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence. -- Genevieve Taggard

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