Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Demme

Neil would be singing these songs for the first time ever to an audience that never heard them before. He'd be so communicative under those circumstances.

Richard Greenberg

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

Fox should be in the business of going after noisy franchise events. It is a little uncomfortable to launch serialized shows. If you don't get people early, it's very difficult for those shows to grow, and they're not great in reruns. But you've got to get fresh audiences coming to try your network, and you've got to cater to their needs.

Fox should be in the business of going after noisy franchise events, ... It is a little uncomfortable to launch serialized shows. If you don't get people early, it's very difficult for those shows to grow, and they're not great in reruns. But you've got to get fresh audiences coming to try your network, and you've got to cater to their needs.

Gavin DeGraw

From being around live audiences in a lot of cities, I've more developed a desire to hear them react, more than I used to,

Shawn Wayans

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

Peter Greene

G4 and IDGE target a coveted demographic that values interaction at every level, ... This new joint promotional venture is a prime example of how non-competing editorial entities can create dynamic content and creative synergies to increase audience reach.

Franz Ferdinand

If all the right people say, 'Go here', then of course they get a huge audience, but that audience has no loyalty, and they are quickly out-cooled by someone else.

Louis Leterrier

I don't want it to be 'Oh, that's the one-shot movie,' ... I don't want to show my directing. I want a great story. A great screenplay. I want it to be amazing. Then, when audience members go see it, they're really entertained and hypnotized for an hour-and-a-half. They come out and their friends say, 'Did you realize the camera never cut back-and-forth?'

Michael Mann

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I expect it will be pretty successful. It will expand the audience for their popular television programs and bring them some revenue.

I expect it's because the French got fourth. We skated good and got first place it's not my business if the audience isn't happy.

I expect the audience will come away having enjoyed a nice light evening of great dancing.

Ram Kapoor

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

I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.

Matt Damon

I don't think it's fair to bemoan our fate, ... I think a movie lives or dies based on its own merit. If it doesn't find an audience in this theatrical release, hopefully down the line it'll be appreciated and Terry will be appreciated for what he's done.

David Rockwell

For me the most interesting part of theater is the relationship between the audience and the performer. In creating a theater, you get to mold essentially, out of raw clay, what that relationship's going to be. That's an interesting thing you don't get to do on Broadway.

Bea Arthur

For us it was really the same, because we did the show in front of a live audience, it was like being on stage.

I get up in front of audiences and do a drawing. Some days I give away t-shirts. Usually it's $20 cash.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

I get to play in front of the most enthusiastic audience of all. There's nothing like playing for kids.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out

If that's the way you're going to be growing your audience in the future, by innovating in terms of what medium you're going to be using, I don't see that hiring a celebrity broadcaster is going to help you with that strategy.

Joel Silver

If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.

Paul Scheuring

If the audience is invested in the characters, I think that season two will be quite a wild ride and in a very different look.

Tom Browning

He was certainly trying to give an inspirational speech but in a way a college audience that might be cynical could appreciate.

Joel Edgerton

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.

Shane McAnally

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.

Win Butler

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

Alexandra Robbins

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real.

Stjepan Hauser

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

Ben Kingsley

If we hit the collective nerve of the audience on that night, that they would be standing up and rushing towards the stage to hug us.

John Barrymore

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me