Quotes about Audience
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
- Samuel Johnson
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- Mark Twain
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
- Holly Hunter
If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
- Mark Batterson
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
- Max Lucado
I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.
- Bo Burnham
Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.
- George Whitefield
People like you in negative roles, they want to see you only in negative roles and thus you get typecast. At the end of the day, what matters is whether the audience loves you or not.
- Sudha Chandran
I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were.
- Todd Haynes
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
- John Mayer
I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.
- Billy Graham