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Audience Quotes

"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."

Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian Actress

Audience, Audiences, Blush

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"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."

Randy Bachman, Canadian Musician

Audience, Audiences, Public, Songs

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"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

Audience, Audiences, Career, Nothing, Public

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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."

Dorothy Kilgallen, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Man, Trying, World

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"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

Jon Crosby, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Feeling

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer

Audience, Audiences

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

Audience, Audiences, Spain

"What I write is not for little girls."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

Audience, Girls

"We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences."

Jerry Bruckheimer, American Producer

Audience, Audiences, Want

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

Janis Joplin, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

"I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange."

Andrew Eldritch, English Musician

Audience, Audiences

"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."

Sean Penn, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Want

"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."

Emma Thompson, English Actress

Audience, Audiences, Children, End

"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

Audience, Day, Press, Public, Waiting

"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

Antony Hewish, British Scientist

Audience, Audiences, Concern, Physics, Teaching

"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."

Rue McClanahan, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Kids

"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

Kevin Spacey, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Trying, Years

"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."

Van Morrison, British Musician

Audience, Audiences

"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

Audience, Audiences, Eyes, London

"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."

David Cassidy, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Kids, Play, Years

"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, states

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

David Antin, American Poet

Audience, Audiences, Want

"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."

Doc Watson, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Play

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

Edward Albee, American Dramatist

Audience, Audiences, Difference

"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

Timothy West, British Actor

Audience, Audiences, Play, Reason

"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."

Robert Caro, American Writer

Audience, Ballet, Faces

"I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me."

Forest Whitaker, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Connection, Man, Play

"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

Andy Partridge, British Musician

Audience, Audiences, Eating, France

"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Audience, Audiences

"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."

Glenn Close, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Behavior, Blood

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."

Norman Granz, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Europe, Teenagers

"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

Audience, Network

"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences."

Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

Audience, Audiences, Will

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."

Dick Wolf, American Producer

Audience, Audiences, Television, Want

"The States still has the best audiences by far."

Robin Trower, English Musician

Audience, Audiences, states

"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."

Charles Bronson, American Actor

Audience, Audiences

"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."

Brandon Routh, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Job, Wrong

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

James Young, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Crowds, Now

"Audiences are audiences."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Audience, Audiences

"We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play."

Santiago Durango, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Care, Play

"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."

Tabitha Soren, American Celebrity

Audience, Audiences, Comparisons, Present, Years

"We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences."

Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor

Audience, Audiences, Film

"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."

Artur Schnabel, Polish Musician

Audience, Audiences

"Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, World

"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

Lee Hazlewood, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Testing, Theater

"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

Jimmy Buffett, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

Johnny Vegas, British Comedian

Audience, Audiences, Comedy, Want

"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."

Claudette Colbert, French Actress

Audience, Audiences, Sound

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

Steve Forbert, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Pretty

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