On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
Bert Fischer: [in clapping audience] That's my son. That's my Maxie.
Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.
'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.
My audiences who love me don't mind me dancing with two left feet.
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
