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Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

I work to please my audience.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.