Audience Mindset Quotes

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

It's a great time to do a show, at Christmas time. People are by and large in a Christmas frame of mind.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.