A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.
I really like involvement with an audience.
I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies.
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.
There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!
There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.
One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.
For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
