#audience

Audiences deserve better. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#better #deserve

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. ↗

— Steve Martin

#automatic #automatically #bothered #comedians #day

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. ↗

— Steve Martin

#always #audience #banjo #comedy #desperately

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely. ↗

— Steve Martin

#book #definitely #doing #how #i

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. ↗

— Tony Martin

#audience #bought #difference #elvis #elvis presley

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone. ↗

— Richard Marx

#bruised #fell #gone #i #off

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#anything #audience #difference #dinner #dinner table

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#front #go #i #i can #lot

My audience is much more center right, or centrist. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#center #centrist #more #much #right

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#audiences #been #england #era #me