#audience

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#audience #barely #documentary #factual #fascinating

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers. ↗

— Michael Bay

#cheers #great #great joy #hear #i

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. ↗

— Tristan Bernard

#expect #surprised #theatre #things #wants

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. ↗

— John Boorman

#attuned #audience #aware #being #clear

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#enough #every #find #just #long

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#end #entire #fun #hysterically #laughing

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together. ↗

— Michael Owen Bruce

#audience #back #band #gamble #got

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#because #go #i #i think #make

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#audience #been #classic #cult #embraced