#audience

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

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. ↗

— David Gallagher

#assumes #audience #bad #bad guy #going

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. ↗

— Anna Held

#discover #entertain #how #instinctively #you

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ↗

— Judy Garland

#audience #bring #drama #i #know

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. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#boy #death #element #feel #interest

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#audience #choice #equal #every #execute

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#audience #audiences #been #content #enough

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#chance #fickle #got #just #quite

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#art #audiences #aware #completely #disappeared