Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Nicholson

Tim Conway is one of the best-loved comedians in the country. The combination of great comedy with an exciting sport for a worthy cause will be a guaranteed hit with our audience that night.

We have a goal that with every performance. When the audience leaves, we want each person to leave as a different person than how they arrived. This is so much more than simply beautiful music. Its message is deep and filled with hope for an always brighter future.

Jason Gilkison

We wanted to have that feel of a smoky club and keep the balance so that a big show succeeds. It's all about satisfying the audience and dancers' demands.

We've learned the audience has grown older with the movies, so the PG-13 rating just played into the core of the audience.

Keenen Wayans

Usually what happens is that you screen all of it and then when the audience doesn't respond to it - you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

Simon McBurney

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Paul Di Filippo

Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.

Patricia Richardson

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

Peter Jackson

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

Peter Morgan

People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Peter Riegert

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.

Peter Shaffer

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Kevin Spacey

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

Annalee Newitz

Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

When the audience stays away, in this competitive environment, quick decisions are made.

Kyle MacLachlan

When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest introduction to a character I've seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions.

Joan Baez

You can even hear me go flat in places, ... It's all over that recording. The audience was in a dark depression. We didn't even include all of their responses, as you might imagine.

Robert Rodriguez

You'll click a button and get to hear the Austin audience reacting to the film for the first time. You'll hear what took them by surprise, made them gasp. It's gonna be really cool.

You'll also notice the audience and the performers are in the same room. That gives the sense that the sound comes directly to them. Acoustically, it's a much different type of experience than many people have had a chance to try.

Wireless e-mail was ushered in by BlackBerry. It was a great first act, but the show goes on. The audience has matured and wants much, much more. Thank you BlackBerry, the market will take it from here.

James Blake

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

Evan Lysacek

I thought I stayed with the program and with the character, and the audience was great, ... Grease.

Paul Provenza

Johnny can't gain his composure, Ed McMahon is doing his characteristic bull moose guffaw, the band -- the instruments are banging into one another -- the audience is in tears, and every time Johnny would try to gain his composure, he would look at Buddy and it would start all over again.

It is easier to penetrate your audience with one sharp, clean point or idea, thand with a maze of half-baked unremarkable, uninspiring ideas that will never motivate or be remembered.

Freddie Roach

Manny's Filipino audience loves to watch him, but I wanted it to be more private so we could better work on going to the body and the other things we need to work on. Velazquez is somebody we definitely can't take lightly. Everybody's talking about Morales and the rematch, but there won't be a rematch without winning this fight. We've been working on a little bit of everything to make Manny more of a complete fighter.

I'm hoping to put (my business plan) in front of the right audience and show them that we have a good model for growth moving forward.

Ben Kingsley

I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them there is a violent person in all of us.

John Hunter

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

We focus so much on special effects and sound effects that we are shortchanging the audience on stories. ... We want to return to making movies that stir the heart, challenge the mind and feed the soul. When is the last time you saw a movie that moved your heart in such a way that your thought 'I'm changed because of what I saw'?

Tim Jackson

We have a very committed, loyal audience that wants to be both entertained and challenged. They want to see the big-name jazz stars, but they also want to see what's new and different out there. They have this 'show me' attitude. They want guidance to new and creative things.

We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors.

Zoe Kazan

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

Zeljko Ivanek

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.