Famous Quotes & Sayings

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

What I realized with 'Unbreakable' is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater. So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see -- joy and emotion.

Mary Matalin

What we see and what we all do on cable TV is not what people in the real world want to hear. There's an audience for those kind of books, but there's a much bigger, deeper audience for what I want these books to be - provocative in the sense of thought provoking.

Anne Graham Lotz

The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

That's what Hollywood films do. They tell you this is a tender moment. Now we want you to cry. I refuse to manipulate the audience that way.

Vanilla Ice

I was playing a record company whore back in the days, a puppet. Everything was staged. I wasn't really designed to be this novelty act; I was turned into one. When I first came out, I was opening for Ice-T, EPMD, and Public Enemy. All of my audience was black.

Alfred Hitchcock

I always take the audience into account.

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.

We are thrilled to be renewing Wildfire . It has done tremendously well for us, drawing in key demos week after week and serving as a great launching pad for Beautiful People . Gen Cortese is fabulous in the lead our audiences just love this show.

Edward Norton

We are thrilled to be collaborating with Edward on this labor-of-love. They're a very daring company and have a great knack for communicating with audiences about challenging films.

John Legend

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'

Jonathan Glazer

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

We believe the new range of ticket prices starting at $26 will encourage more people to join this new audience and experience the thrilling drama and magical beauty of The Lord of the Rings live on stage.

Frank Marshall

We had long discussions about this, because at the beginning I was a little bit reluctant, because I thought, 'Well, are people going to think that we've got a camera on Mars?' and then, I thought, 'Well, people are far enough along. The audience is smart.' We want to show want show what the rovers are doing and we can't just have stills.

We had an audience primarily of women, until men got wind of it.

Bruce Beresford

We had a lot of trouble with that third role because I said to the studio that it was important to get someone who was, on the one hand, a wonderful actor, and, on the other hand was not well known, because if you had simply hired an actor like one of the Baldwin brothers or someone like that the audience would have known that they were too big a star to be killed off and not come back.

Julia Child

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Lee Hall

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Nina Tassler

We're going back to our original form. . . . We know that our audience loves that brand. We just tried something different, and we're going back to what I think everybody is really looking forward to.

We're constantly working on our audience and potential audiences to be relevant to their lives. Trying to find out now what may be 15 years away is part of the challenge, but this new product is one way to help reach the mobile consumer which is a critical demo for our brand.

Ric Ocasek

I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

Rhys Ifans

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

Rohit Shetty

Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.

Rohit Shetty

People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.

Stephen Graham Jones

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.