What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
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.
