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.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
