"I don't write for a particular audience."
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"There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you."
"If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized."
"Convicts are the best audience I ever played for."
"Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused."
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
"Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing."
"I'm dragging the audience to hell with me"
"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious"
"The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me."
"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."
"Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier."
"In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write."
"I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me."
"If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once."
"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."
"I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years."
"He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued."