I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.
To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.
We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.
