Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Karr

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

We've wanted to do this for a while. We're trying to expand our audience base by doing something lighter; we want families to come with their kids and find that this is accessible.

We are also very audience interactive. We want the audience to experience our performance, not just watch it.

Noomi Rapace

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Katrina Kaif

I have done many comedy films. Success of films like 'Partner,' 'Singh is Kinng' gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.

As adults we want to teach them to bring unity to their message, but to consider their audience. Their audience isn't the Mexican Congress.

The broadest audience we can reach right now is going to be on Windows XP. What we do longer term is a function of where the market is.

Audiences like to be made to feel that there is a world where things go right: where big emotions can happen and yet feel safe. This is why there is a constant tension in Hollywood between studios who want happy endings and writers who want to explore the human condition. There is a time and a place for both!

Dana Fox

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.

Audiences and critics love Avenue Q. We look forward to sharing it with theatre audiences around the world." ()

Leon Bridges

People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people.

Opie and Anthony have proven their determination to succeed in this business, and have a relationship with their audience that is second to none in the industry.

Actually, I don't think Bond has ever been particularly relevant to the modern world. When you look at the other big movies of recent years, like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, you wonder if it matters. The franchise has got more popular with each consecutive film. The question now is how much they deviate from the expected formula. Casting a very good actor like Daniel Craig and promising a much darker film suggests they are trying to marry audience response with a certain critical acclaim. That's very encouraging.

Michael Douglas

Actors have always done well playing the bad guys in movies. Audiences enjoy bad guys because through these characters, normal people are able to experience, vicariously, what its like to be vicious, nasty, and amoral. Kindness is not rewarded very much as far as drama is concerned.

Sonny Chiba

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Macy Gray

The more I did it, the more I evolved on my own time. I'm at the point now where I get up on stage and tell myself that even if the audience doesn't have fun, I'll have fun. I just get up and party.

The more devices people have, the more experiences they want, and the more occasions they have to become an audience. In our company, despite the fact our audience is going online, our ratings are (the) highest ever. Our series ' Laguna Beach ' is available to consumers online or with their cell phone. The television is not the center of the universe; it is one piece of a hub.

Don Bluth

Dragon's Lair, for some reason, still commands shelf-life. If you go into a store, they will have Dragon's Lair somewhere in the store. And for 18 years this has been going on. So let's say that must mean there's an audience that wants to see it.

Jonathan Raban

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Denver was part of a national trend. Talk-radio audience ratings were flat around the country.

A one-year gap between films is pushing it as it is. Normally you want two years between sequels. An audience needs a little time to regroup.

An individual person building an audience and a business through self-created content ? that's not been possible before.

Mary Tyler Moore

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Harvey Pekar

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Anything that goes out of control with the marketing machine of a movie can cause a problem. The way audiences often get wind of it is when there's a trailer or posters in theaters, and suddenly the movies are gone.

Bryan Batt

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.

Kenny Rogers

The skew of the audience has probably dropped 10 years, ... Older people don't have the spontaneity and the energy. You mix in 15-percent young kids and the older people enjoy the show more.

Roger Ailes

The spirit of the speaker will determine the spirit of the audience

The significant global audience that the UEFA Champions League delivers will provide Sony Electronics with an unrivalled media platform to further build brand image and increase product awareness.

The Summer Games have typically gotten bigger audiences and higher ratings.

Jennifer Lopez

I see this opportunity as a way to connect to the Spanish-speaking audience in a different and more profound way than I've been able to do in the past. I want to tell the stories of Latinos who grow up here and live the American Dream.