Quotes on Audiences

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Author: Edward Albee

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

Author: David Antin

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

Author: Dario Argento

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Author: Randy Bachman

Audiences are audiences.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

Author: Charles Bronson

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Author: Cab Calloway

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

Author: David Cassidy

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

Author: Glenn Close

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

Author: Claudette Colbert

But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned.

Author: Graham Coxon

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

Author: Jon Crosby

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

Author: Celia Cruz

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

Author: Peter Davies

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

Author: Santiago Durango

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

Author: Sanjay Dutt

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Author: Steve Forbert

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Author: Charlotte Gilman

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

Author: Norman Granz

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

Author: Lee Hazlewood

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Author: Anna Held

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Author: Werner Herzog

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Author: Antony Hewish

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

Author: Paul Hirsch

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Author: Roland Joffe

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Author: Roland Joffe

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Author: Janis Joplin

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Author: Dorothy Kilgallen

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

Author: Ted Kotcheff

Audiences deserve better.

Author: Leonard Maltin

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Author: Rue McClanahan

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

Author: Todd McFarlane

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

Author: Sam Mendes

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

Author: Liza Minnelli

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Author: Van Morrison

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Author: Graeme Murphy

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

Author: Maureen O'Hara

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Author: Andy Partridge

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

Author: Sean Penn

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Author: Harold Ramis

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

Author: Michael Ritchie

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Author: Joan Rivers

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Author: Brandon Routh

I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.

Author: Mark Russell

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

Author: Artur Schnabel

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

Author: Archie Shepp

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

Author: Tabitha Soren

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Author: Mira Sorvino

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Author: Kevin Spacey

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Author: Robert Teeter

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Author: Twyla Tharp

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Author: Emma Thompson

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

Author: Richard Thompson

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Author: Robin Trower

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Author: Johnny Vegas

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

Author: Johnny Vegas

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Author: Gore Vidal

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

Author: Doc Watson

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

Author: Timothy West

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Author: Forest Whitaker

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Author: Walt Whitman

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

Author: Dick Wolf

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

Author: Roy Wood

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Author: Zhang Yimou

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

Author: James Young

I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

Author: David Zucker