Audience Quotes - Page 8

• Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

  Brian May

  Unique, People, Giving

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• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  Carl Bernstein

  Truth, Honesty, Lines

  "Watergate Journalist Says Media Losing Public’s Trust". www2.ljworld.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Trying, May

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• One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

  William Petersen

  Responsibility, Giving, Things I Love

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• You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

  Richard Thompson

  Want, Uncomfortable

  "The guitarist picked the right career" by John Burger, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

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• When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Sad, Beautiful

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• I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Play, Missing, Littles

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• Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

  Lance Burton

  Years, Volunteer, Magic

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• The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

  Herb Alpert

  Loyal, Seems

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• I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Type, Certain

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• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

  Robert Englund

  Wise, Horror, Modern

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

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• I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

  David Coverdale

  Heart, Feelings, Uncomfortable

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• You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

  Kim Gordon

  Certain, Knows

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• I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

  Leo Kottke

  Jobs, Usual, Records

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• I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Practice, Tape, Pieces

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• Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

  Todd Solondz

  Ideas, Censored, Originals

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.

  Kenny Loggins

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

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• It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Ideas, Mind

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• All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

  Gina Philips

  Fun, Horror, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Understand Me

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• applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Echoes, Applause, Platitudes

  'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19

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• When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Age, Vitality, Aging

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• I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Careers, Painful

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• Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Made, Uncomfortable, Behinds

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