Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolk

I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.

Matt Damon

I don't think it's fair to bemoan our fate, ... I think a movie lives or dies based on its own merit. If it doesn't find an audience in this theatrical release, hopefully down the line it'll be appreciated and Terry will be appreciated for what he's done.

Leonard Susskind

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

Ann Bancroft

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Aimee Garcia

I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won 45 million dollars.

Jason Mraz

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm playing for a roomful of human beings. And geographical and political borders just all dissolve. And we unite through rhythm inhalation. I mean, I'm so grateful that, you know, audiences around the world connect to English music.

Cameron Crowe

I felt like I was seeing it with the audience it was made for,

Janis Joplin

I feel, you know, I hurt, please help.' I'm saying words, man, and if I look at an audience and they ain't understanding me, it's just like getting kicked in the teeth.

I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.

Tony Cox

I can tell a 'guitar audience' within one note.

Jeff Kinney

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Allison Jones

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

I didn't want to come back to Colorado last summer and basically audition for other teams and blow out of town as soon as I was a free agent. I wanted to come back, pitch well and have those guys want me to be back.

Sara Gilbert

I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

Johnny Knoxville

I don't feel I really had anything to prove, ... The part was offered to me outright, so I didn't audition for it. But pretty much Southern, ne'er-do-well, you know, father of a beautiful little girl ... Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much me. Yeah.

Nine Nails

I'd like to personally thank the audience in San Diego for your understanding and the respect you displayed last night. I will make it up to you.

Andy Grove

I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.

Rupert Holmes

I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.

Steve Vai

I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.

Josh Pais

I created an online program that has audio lessons and PDF worksheets and two hours of video. So it's like a course you can do at home. And people are loving it and getting jobs from it.

I am excited mainly about the reaction of the audience more than anything else I love playing my instrument, but I really get excited about the reaction from the audience.

I am just so proud of John. I can't hardly stand it, but I also look forward to watching a kid whose other hobby in those days was fishing in the lake on the backside at Campbellsville Country Club mesmerizing TV audiences for years to come and to think Kehoe wanted him to go to Louisville." ()

Barry Levinson

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Artie Shaw

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

Bobby McFerrin

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Andrew Bird

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

Allison Williams

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

Allison Tolman

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

Sarah Gadon

It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.

George Will

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

George Will

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.