Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Koo

On the monetization front, our strengthening leadership in internet user base and broadening reach of our platform have already positioned us as a must-buy platform in online video for brand advertisers to reach a nationwide audience within China.

The practice of speaking to an audience outside of the chamber is very old. These people are professional politicians, and they will not be swayed by others' oratory.

Soledad O'Brien

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

We are Disney, in a sense. When you've been there for 20 years, there's a certain heart and soul to one of those films, and you inhabit that to a certain degree. So if it feels true to you, then your audience will hopefully go for it.

It explores the real person and his ambiguities. His personality isn't totally clear cut. He wrote wonderful poetry. A lot of it is erotic and a lot of it is homoerotic. We don't want to paint him as being gay, but he was confused and unsure about his sexuality. It's left up to the audience to decide.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' is going for the 'Scream' audience, ... They want teen-agers who are just hungry for another horror movie.

Robert Black

I think people at the national level are looking at Gov. Perry and the state of Texas. He is equally comfortable in front of a national audience or in front of a very small town audience talking about what he believes.

Rivers Cuomo

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I think President Bush was speaking to an audience at home and to other countries in the region that want to see that the U.S. is still committed to human rights reforms in China, ... The bilateral discussions will be trade, currency exchange rates and more trade, with some side issues like avian flu and energy.

John Hockenberry

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

Kevin Hall

It does give him an opportunity to point out to a national audience how well things are going in Virginia thanks to bipartisanship and a focus on issues that bring people together instead of dividing them.

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

Michelle Monaghan

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

Mark Potok

It has become the propaganda venue of choice, ... It allows Klansmen who a few years ago could reach only 100 people with a poorly produced pamphlet to reach an audience in the millions.

When it's the right film with the right story and the right star, then you've got a box office hit on your hands. Often times they are very profitable movies because the budgets aren't very high; it's a matter of targeting the audience and reaching out to them.

Colin Mochrie

When I think about it, I mean really, I'm 47, I should be embarrassed by this. A grown man, barefoot, walking on mousetraps, just to get an audience to laugh. It's sad in a way.

Jules Renard

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

Mike Nichols

We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.

We really believe in this show, so we're bedding it down over summer so we can get viewers quickly to the point where it really starts to work. I'd be happy to have a core audience of 800,000 to work with when ratings start (February 12) as the show really evolves by then.

Jeff Zucker

We're all uncertain. There's no question the audience has been willing to laugh. It just has been hard on television the last five years.

Billie Armstrong

We're always into that. It breaks down the wall between the band and the audience. It's a dream come true for the people who get onstage, but also for the people who watch it because they're seeing somebody who is one of their own. Sometimes it turns out great, sometimes it's a complete disaster. But even when it sounds bad, it's sometimes even better because there's a certain charm to it.

Emmylou Harris

Well, I'm just very blessed that I still love my work and I can still work, I still have an audience and I love what I do.

David Walliams

We hope the Little Britain audience who like us will come with us on that journey.

Mark Billingham

Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'

We have to play the sounds the audience hears. It has to be easy to decipher. And it seems like a simple concept, but it's so important. Not playing live really hurts the image of electronic music. It bugs us when people don't put any thought into their live performances.

We're delighted with the quality of all submissions. We are committed to publishing as many new voices as possible. Our main focus is commercial entertainment. We don't focus on category, or any specialty beyond entertaining audiences with fresh voices.

Naveen Andrews

We're dealing with an immense kind of pressure to keep the quality up. It's make or break this season, quite frankly. ... We have an audience now. We can't let them down.

Leonard Maltin

We know Jodie Foster is a smart woman. But it's always tough for women to find leading roles in commercial Hollywood movies. She looks for the best material she can find, and if it happens that it's thrillers, then it's thrillers. What ultimately matters is that she's always good. Movie audiences not only like her, but respect her.

We'll focus on Wal-Mart snafus and screw-ups because our audience believes they shed light on Wal-Mart's corporate ethics and culture.

Cate Blanchett

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Ali LeRoi

Unfortunately, people tend to see it as a black show because there are black characters. But it's easier to jump those lines of race now. There's a viewing audience that watches because it's a family show and it's funny.

Scott McKenzie

To have a Howard clone or a 'Howard Light' just won't cut it. The audience is going to figure that out quickly.

Thomas Schelling

To go 60 years without any further use of nuclear weapons, I find astonishing. If I would have stood in front of an audience like this in 1960 and said we would finish the century without using nuclear weapons, no one would have credited me whatsoever.