When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
