Audience Quotes

"I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation." "I can't control how people are going to interpret my work." "The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing." "The thing about comedy is that if you bring me to a festival, I’ll definitely kill, but if it’s just regular folks, then you’ve got something worth talking about" "I don't want the stage, I want the people in front of it." "I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions — the curtain was up." "Being an actor is like being a magician. You show something to the audience, but you never reveal the secrets." "Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like - and the fact that people respond to them is kind of amazing." "I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it." "Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed." "I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies." "The essence of acting is to communicate to every audience member." "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "I think audiences get too much information, and they’re not feeling enough when they go to a movie." "I love the connection you get with an audience when there's no separation " "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience." "When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it." "I think audiences expect something a little different from movies than they do from other art forms" "Just because you break the fourth wall doesn't make you any smarter than me." "When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you"