Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Spelling

I think you have to be very careful you don't make the audience hate someone by giving him a retort that is not funny. Funny retorts work, but when you're vicious to someone, they do not work. My wife says I'm vicious all the time! Thank God she's supporting me, so I have to stop!

I think the first factor is the music. I think the second is their individuality. And I really think the third was that if you take their music today, and you played it to an audience that never heard of the Beatles, and played their 20 or 30 best songs, the music would be as fresh today as it was in 1970 or 1966. It's timeless.

Alan Alda

I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.

Simon Cowell

I think the audience at home deserves better than that.

Matthew Ashford

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

I was concerned initially. But when I saw it with an audience, I relaxed. Bottom line is, out of 600 test cards, only one mentioned it.

Jon Lewis

I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine would have been given a chance in auditions if I hadn't been successful with more rockin' tunes.

This was not a weekend destined to be a blockbuster weekend. Really, really slow. Audiences seemed somewhat indifferent again. That's the scary part for the industry. It really takes a lot to get them out there to see a movie. It seems like any competition, like baseball, really cuts in big-time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is enough room and enough audience to have two teams. We just have to all work together and make it happen.

Katie Holmes

We try to portray a group of kids that the audience will want to be.

We've been trying to get away from the staid, traditional format of chamber music concerts because we're losing audience members to age. Chamber music is too easily seen as blue-hair stuff. That's why we have to get even more creative while maintaining the integrity of the series.

Lynn Fontanne

When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.

Josh Fox

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

We support the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, which does great things in the community, and we are able to promote our services to a target audience away from the hard sell.

William Petersen

We thought we would have a niche audience of loyal viewers like 'X-Files' or 'West Wing.' But we have a huge audience that crosses all kinds of boundaries. It's unique. It's bizarre.

There is an audit being done of peacekeeping department management. As a result of that audit, which also took a look at the procurement department ... we have put eight staff members on special leave with pay.

We looked at each other and we couldn't stop laughing. The audience caught on, and they were laughing too.

We look forward to working with our new independent auditors and we're eager to continue building our professional relationship.

Kristen Connolly

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

HUD said they would be doing a complete audit of all sections of the housing authority. The board requested this audit some time ago.

Scott Aukerman

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

I thought there would be an audience, I thought it would be a big audience, but I didn't think they would take to it as quickly as they have and that's very, very gratifying to see an audience full of not Polynesian people but European.

I thought they would have come with some recommendations that actually reduce the burden -- maybe, you'll only have to, say, audit a third of the controls in any given year. Or maybe they would have come with some clarity on what are effective controls, a problem for all-sized companies.

I think we're beginning to do it in a way that's convincing our audience that we're going to remain serious. It's beginning to jell with people and it's beginning to jell with us, too.

I think we're enormously pleased with it on all fronts. This show seemed to strike a chord with audiences and with the critics.

I think what the minister said the whole issue of who is on lists, how do you audit or monitor it to make sure you are gaining the ground you need to gain is an important part of this.

Peter Jennings

I think audiences, in times of trouble and good times, look for people on television who are basic, don't have airs, don't hype themselves.

Christopher Nolan

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

John Taylor

I think its safe to say that Sony is going for the broadest possible audience you can imagine, ... For the year 2000, PlayStation has a pretty big window of opportunity. It is unclear at this point if there is any serious competition.

It gives us the widest audience we can go to at any given time.

It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use the festival not only as a promotional opportunity, but as a fundraising opportunity as well. Generating an audience has always been very difficult for film festivals, but this formula has been very successful. Generally, most of the screenings are sold out.

Herbie Hancock

It gets boring when you look out at the audience and you see that 90 percent of the people out there are males.

Joel Edgerton

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.