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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. Richard Foreman Audience 359
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. Tom Hiddleston Audience 169
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. Irving R. Kaufman Audience 156
There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience. Brit Hume Audience 143
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra Audience 133
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. Walter Hill Audience 128
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional. Richard Foreman Audience 125
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday Audience 109
I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable. Robert Goulet Audience 101
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. Robert Morgan Audience 95
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. Dwayne Johnson Audience 95
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. Alfred Hitchcock Audience 93
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. Chuck Jones Audience 90
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. Dwayne Johnson Audience 90
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. Tristan Bernard Audience 89
I love to entertain an audience. George Peppard Audience 87
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. Brian Moore Audience 85
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Terence Rattigan Audience 84
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. Jason Mraz Audience 83
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it. Paul Weyrich Audience 83
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale. Roger Andrew Taylor Audience 83
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving. Joe Cocker Audience 82
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together. Robert Stack Audience 82
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. Arthur Miller Audience 81
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile. Reba McEntire Audience 81
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Pete Townshend Audience 77
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. Wes Craven Audience 77
I love hearing my audience breathe. Adele Audience 77
I have to grow with my audience. Ice T Audience 75
You want the audience to be uncomfortable. Richard Thompson Audience 74
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. Lucille Ball Audience 74
When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time. Kenny G Audience 73
There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows. Kiefer Sutherland Audience 73
I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. Donnie Iris Audience 73
The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience. Roger Mudd Audience 72
The bigger the audience, the better with comedy. Jimmy Carr Audience 72
In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Nusrat F. A. Khan Audience 72
My audience is much more center right, or centrist. Chris Matthews Audience 72
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. Herb Alpert Audience 72
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. Galen Rowell Audience 72
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. Gerard Butler Audience 72
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure. Patrick Stewart Audience 71
Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time. Pierce Brosnan Audience 71
I just feed off the energy of the audience. Larry David Audience 70
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience. Atom Egoyan Audience 69
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. George P. Baker Audience 69
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. Bob Saget Audience 69
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real. James L. Brooks Audience 69
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. Shirley Booth Audience 68
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. C. Everett Koop Audience 68

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