Dick Cavett Quotes

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

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.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

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.

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.

Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.

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

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

Here's the funny thing: Nothing drives a performance like an audience that gives back and even takes over. ECW was a product that will be remembered as much, if not more, for its audience interaction as for the things that happened in the ring.