audience

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

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.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just dance. Set this scene into motion.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.