Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meat Loaf

They expect the best that I can give them on that night, ... It all comes back from playing high school football. There were a couple of signs (in the locker room) and the head coach misspelled a couple, but that's beside the point... . As you went onto the field and you came from the field, on both sides of the door (there was a sign that said) 110 percent. And that's how I relate to that. Your job is to motivate the audience... . I have never failed on a dead audience to get them alive... . If they're dead, it's my fault, not theirs.

Shawn Levy

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.

Meg Whitman

This past quarter, we continued our efforts to bring a wider audience to eBay through a variety of marketing endeavors including online and traditional advertising, grassroots marketing, public relations and strong word of mouth referrals.

Mark O'Connor

This music is really addictive. I can get into the swing and never want to leave. I think audiences will feel something similar.

Chris Matthews

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

George Peppard

I love to entertain an audience.

I felt we needed something to help the audience keep up with the changing time periods. I had a collection of slides from Life magazine and picked a few out. I think it brings a reality to the play, showing what the world was like outside.

Greta Scacchi

I felt the thrill of a journey in a play where the writer gives you the power to take the audience with you, to have it eating out of your hand.

Al Gore

I decided to take part in this documentary because the filmmakers convinced me that it was the best way to get the word out to as large an audience as possible, and to convince more people to look at the truth of our circumstances.

Ravi Teja

I did a fantastic emotional film, 'Autograph.' But the audiences rejected me in it. They like to see me laughing and fighting.

Rick Springfield

I can wade into an audience now and not lose a limb, so that's great,

Bea Arthur

I don't think there was ever an embarrassment, there was such love going back and forth between the audience and us, that nothing was embarrassing.

Ravi Shankar

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

Frank Deford

I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,

I do wear tails . . . I think it would be distracting to wear a long dress. You have to look ultra-formal and in command at the podium because, well, you are in command. Or you'd better be. . . . The music should be done so well that the audience forgets if you're a man or woman. There's nothing about conducting that's gender-specific.

David Sanborn

I don't see any way out of that because I think the audience as a whole is not being served and isn't getting excited about going out an buying CD's, and for that matter, going out and going to concerts.

Emeril Lagasse

I am very fortunate that I have a large audience who watches my show, and who seem to love my show, and there's certainly a lot of people contact that comes from that. But that really hasn't changed what I still feel, or how I get up in the morning, or what motivates me to get to work.

Rick Moranis

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.

Jack Gleeson

Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of video wore off. We had to evolve with our audience and develop beyond a radio model.

Angela Jones

Every year, we have people willing to discuss the films, audience members who just can't get enough, so this time we're going to offer an international film forum for people to come out and talk about the movies.

Every year they come back with less of an audience, ... so the more they can do to sustain themselves (in summer), the better.

Bravo has had great success in introducing new characters with unique personalities and lifestyles to television audiences. Just as the seemingly uncomplicated life of a hairstylist revealed explosive drama in 'Blow Out', viewers will be treated with a new level of high intensity entertainment with professional trainers in an exclusive gym.

Christina Aguilera

Britney and I show a little tummy and it's like, 'Oh My God.' But N'Sync or Backstreet Boys will do repeated pelvic thrusts to an audience of pre-pubescent girls and nobody says anything!

Adam Rayner

British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.

Danny Boyle

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

Even though I wrote 'Saint Ralph,' the process still seems mysterious. How characters, worlds, conflicts and dreams can be transferred to the page and then filmed in such a way as to make audiences suspend their disbelief, seem miraculous.

Robert Rodriguez

(Bernstein's) music continues to be loved by all kinds of audiences, ... So get your tickets early. Our concert is going to be packed.

Nicholas Kristof

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.

Blue Collar Comedy' is our only program with growing ratings and it taps into an underserved market. Rather than keep hammering away at the small teen girl market, we decided to re-orient the network around this audience of people I fly over on the way to meetings.

Blogging is growing, but it is still a pretty niche thing. We wanted to introduce it to a more mainstream audience and show them it can be about more than just blogging.

Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.