Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Salley

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.

Michelle Yeoh

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.

If you're 30 feet in the air, those things offer a false sense of security and can sometimes even be more dangerous. Plus there is that sense of thrill you get -- the tempting of fate -- that the audience can feel.

If you look at the characters that were predominantly on their schedule, with 'The West Wing,' 'Frasier' and 'Seinfeld,' they were detached, elitist and urban, ... every network is trying to reach as broad an audience as possible.

Don Bluth

If you go back to-I think it was Hunchback, then there was Hercules-those picture were sagging. They were in a formula groove. The audience knew that. The box office fell off, but it came back up with Tarzan.

In this show there is no fourth wall whatsoever. This show is completely wink-wink, nudge-nudge with the audience.

In the fourth quarter, as in the rest of 1999, we focused on two significant objectives -- serve the world's largest audience through integrated communications, commerce and media services, and provide the most effective interactive marketing platform for advertisers and merchants to connect with our users.

Mandy Patinkin

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

Carl Reiner

In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.

Mark Goddard

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

Jimmy Spencer

I like to make people feel good, ... Life can be such a scramble. I hope to make at least one person in the audience happy. If one couple comes up to me and says they enjoyed the show, that's my whole night right there.

Mitch Hedberg

I like to close my eyes on the stage, because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

If there is an audience there, ... there'll be programming to cater to that. You fish where the fish are.

David Sanborn

I think Norah Jones is a perfect example. Here's somebody who was playing the music she wanted to play and did it with some conviction, and it happened to be at a moment in time when there was a highly receptive audience for that kind of music.

Cowboy Troy

I plan to just keep making my music and if there's an audience for it, it will come.

David Walton

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.

Robyn

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music.

Being on CMT gives us the freedom to acknowledge that, because our audience is by and large not a cynical audience.

Because I was studying these kinds of movies so carefully, I realized how obvious their basic structure is, so I decided to reverse it. When you're playing with very known patterns of narrative events, you just have to twist one little thing, and it suddenly becomes very original. It's kind of like what Alfred Hitchcock did in Psycho . There's a sadistic pleasure to watching an audience realize you've broken the rules and anything goes.

Martin Scorsese

His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene.

Scott McKenzie

His feeling was you want to be the guy replacing the guy who replaced Howard. Because no matter who the first guy is, Howard's audience is going to hate him.

Chris Evans is a brilliant radio talent who has already scored a hit with his weekend show. I know he will give the audience a great new show for weekdays.

Choosing Raymond for their debut show was like a Broadway production opening in the Catskills it was a chance to try things out on an audience perceived as not very discerning or sophisticated.

Cable has nothing to lose. Cable networks only need to find a niche audience for success.

James Mercer

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

Michael Showalter

In each case, the minute you see them, you know they're wrong, ... The instant they walk on the screen, they give you some information that immediately makes the audience turn to the person sitting next to them and say, 'He's wrong for her. It'll never work out.'

Julia Sawalha

I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience for a mystery. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always on the edge of my seat.

Jim Crace

I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

Beatrice Arthur

I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.

Mike Birbiglia

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.

David Hare

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

Deval Patrick

I frequently feel when I listen to him and to many other elected officials that they are speaking to an audience not in the room.