Musicals are by nature theatrical meaning poetic meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
If I'm doing a concert and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song and I'm good for the rest of the night.
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.
There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows I think the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?
I think at any point as an artist whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
Do you need an audience to create work or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want but the proof is right there in front of you.
Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
I never have an intended audience. I just write you know.
A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
When you're working in front of an audience you have incentive to excel.
I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.
Now we have an audience that is so very eclectic. Big tremendous fans.
I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.
You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
Theater is about language so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Usually I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience what that core audience really likes.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA which is fabulous.
Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters you have to hook an audience and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
Every audience is different even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.
Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.
There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
When a good writer is having fun the audience is almost always having fun too.
Now when I started my theater the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
I always like to think I'm having a dinner party and I'm the host and the audience are my guests.
The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.
I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.
My audience doesn't agree with me on everything but I love my audience because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
On a superhero show you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.
What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
Survivor' was to me an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there playing out what it means to be a human being.
I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done no matter what cost is what I like.
I have to visualise my jokes live my jokes feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night.
I liked working in a series going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.