Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. – Stephen Sondheim
That’s the thing about great artists: They find the thing that’s most obvious to themselves, what’s most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes. – Steve Vai
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer’s intention. – Steve Bisley
I can’t imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them. – Yann Tiersen
Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics. – Tanc Sade
When you’re with a big TV channel, there’s a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures. – Trinny Woodall
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that’s frustrating. – Tom Conti
A reversal is just anything that’s a surprise. It’s a way of keeping the audience interested. – Tony Gilroy
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it’s always that flag that flutters in front of you. – William Shatner
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. – Tony Kushner
I don’t ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. – William Landay
The audience just doesn’t care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men. – Theresa Rebeck
I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter and to make my designs more accessible to a wider audience in Australia. – Stella McCartney
In fact, it is amazing how much European films – Italian, French, German and English – have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years. – Wim Wenders
I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that. – Vonda Shepard
Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy. – Shawn Amos
That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don’t ‘get it.’ – Theresa Rebeck