Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
