There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! – John Philip Sousa
A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things. – Jeff Dunham
Figure skating is theatrical. It’s artistic. It’s elegant. It’s extremely athletic. And there’s a very specific audience for that. – Johnny Weir
I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience. – Joel Edgerton
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. – Jason Bateman
I don’t mind playing somebody who’s not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted. – James McAvoy
When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV. – Jay Parini
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. – John Lasseter
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. – John Henrik Clarke
To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it’s all-encompassing. – Jason Bateman
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. – Jean Baudrillard
Touring has been a major part of my career. I’ve done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000. – Jasper Carrott
I’m a singer and performer in a hybrid show that’s standup, music and audience participation. – Jason Alexander
I think there’s a far more general audience now because I’ve done more populist stuff on telly. – Jo Brand
I don’t have a Twitter account. I don’t go to fan club gatherings. I’m not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. – Jane Elliot
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience’s ears. It’s not the typical Southern dialect that we’re used to. – Audra McDonald
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn’t stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. – Bernard Cornwell