Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wanda Sykes

I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. It was like a damn terrorist attack. I was onstage in Washington, D.C., and the audience was talking. Some of them even turned their backs to me. I was paralyzed. I couldn't even move. I just kept talking until I heard my mother yell out, 'Wanda! Get off the stage!'

James Burrows

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

In these situations, nothing is more important than communication. In every direction and to every audience or constituency. At the College, this meant staff, faculty, management, trustees, students, parents, regulators and even the public. But you cant do it all at once. You can do anything you want, but not everything you want.

David Walton

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

I heard the audience scream, and knew how hard it must have been for her. But I tried to stay away from it emotionally and focused on what we had to do.

I haven't seen evidence of a big audience spike yet.

Drake Bell

I really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.

Frank Darabont

I really don't think that by the time we're trying to get the audience to see Fahrenheit 451 they're going to be confused with Michael Moore's movie at all.

Chris Bauer

I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'

Jeremy Robinson

I produced audio editions of 'Beneath' and 'Kronos' primarily to grow my audience. I'd seen it work for guys like Scott Sigler and J.C. Hutchins and thought their audience might enjoy my books as well. The goal was to get them hooked on the audio and hope they would migrate to the print books.

Simon McBurney

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

Tristan Bernard

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

In the under-12 group, it was evenly split between boys and girls. Eighty-four percent of the audience rated 'Sinbad' in the top two categories. Ninety-four percent of the under-12s rated it excellent or very good.

In the under-12 group, it was evenly split between boys and girls, ... Eighty-four percent of the audience rated 'Sinbad' in the top two categories. Ninety-four percent of the under-12s rated it excellent or very good.

Horror always has a consistent audience. That doesn't often translate into blockbuster numbers but since they tend to be cheaper anyway, they don't need to do over $100 million.

David Roth

Howard took his old audience. We're after a new one.

I don't think it bothered her audience very much, and if it did bother her audience, I think once she took such a public beating about it, it kind of strengthened her fans' belief in her.

Paul Provenza

I don't know if the audience wants to hear it,

Douglas Sirk

I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

But I think this is a movie that's going to perform well this weekend and be in this for the long term, because it's a really good movie, and that will hold it in good stead and generate great audience reaction. So this is just the beginning for this film.

but if you saw them with that audience at the Meridian it would change your mind.

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh.

Behind each costume and makeup choice is a stylistic representation of something deeper within the musical. I hope the audience likes what we've done with it.

Hire if you need to, or, for not getting what they want from a current site, fire if you need to. The time is now. Your audience is waiting for you.

Wayne Coyne

Their opinion can truly shape what the rest of the audience thinks of you.

The issue for an Internet-only company to service their audience and their marketing partners is better if they have traditional media offerings, too. I'm a believer in multimedia media companies.

The Internet is a great medium for niche content that doesn't have a mass audience or other characteristics that make it fit nicely in the (movie industry's) current business model.

Jason Calacanis

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Bobby Jones

The fact they jumped out to a 5-0 mark in the conference gives them a lot of confidence. They have some really good players, and they have a legitimate shot at winning this conference. We are having it tough right now with injuries, and we also are a young team. We hope we can give the TV audience a good game to watch.

Donald Trump

One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.

Chuck Palahniuk

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

There are some places where we speak directly to the audience. But there is not audience participation.