Patton Oswalt Quotes

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

Stage shows help you meet the audiences face-to-face.

I used to be a big arena person. I thought more people equaled more intensity, but smaller places are a lot more intimate, I feel more connected with the audience.

It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.

I am obsessed with my viewers.

When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.

The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.

In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger!