Audience Quotes - Page 6

• As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Actors, Made

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• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  Kate Smith

  Sympathy, Heart, Thrill

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• Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

  Diogenes

  Dance, Dancing, Virtue

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

  Alben W. Barkley

  Inspirational, Drinking, Intelligent

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• I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Work, Going Away, Convincing

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.222

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• Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

  Walter Savage Landor

  God, Wise, Wisdom

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

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• My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

  Rick Moranis

  Growth, Lines, Taste

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• When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

  Andy Kaufman

  Rooms, Comedy, Sharing Things

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• I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

  Judd Nelson

  Communication, Theatre, Rehearsal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

  Katherine Moennig

  Imperfection, Stage

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• I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

  Mickey Gilley

  Kids, Age

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• I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

  Tyra Banks

  Helping, Not Sure

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• I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Trying, Dangerous

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• I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

  Steve Marriott

  Wigs, Legs, Stage

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• You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

  Mary Renault

  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Ifs

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Surprise, Reactions

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• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  Barbra Streisand

  Umpires, Judging, Lag

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

  Nicholas Lea

  Character, Depth, Add

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Women, Dancing, Males

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, No Idea

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

  Red Barber

  Talking, Imagine, Praise

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