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The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.
You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
In a play you can witness your audience live, understand how they feel. It lets you evaluate yourself and measure your growth.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.
The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.
The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.
You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.
You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.
I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.
If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.
People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of an audience and get up on a stage.
I just get such a connection from an audience. You play with them. I get mad at them. I yell at them. They yell at me. It's just fun.
You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
I enjoy and understand melody before I create it. But the challenge is that I've also got to satisfy the film going audience of today.