Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.
What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
