The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent.
Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.
I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.
I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
