Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think he has a real understanding of not just collaboration and targeting the audience for Groove but also the broader strategic issue of what is that business model exactly that allows Microsoft to make money off services.

Annie Potts

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

Rachel McAdams

I suppose there is a little bit of a numbers game played in Hollywood, so of course the success of something like Wedding Crashers helps, but it's not something that you seek out. I didn't go into that movie hoping it would make a ton of money, but I did hope that it would hit an audience and people would really enjoy it.

Richard Thompson

I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it?

It all began with a simple observation: Fairy tales always focus on the princess and the prince. The godmother is usually a stock character, fairly one-dimensional. But what about her journey, her trials and tribulations? After all, fairyhood is essentially a job, like waiting tables, or litigating. What's it really like to be a fairy day in and day out? Since all fairy tales need a spell of some kind and it's all been done before, we tried to find an original approach. It occurred to us that it would be more exciting to engage the audience's imagination throughout the show by having Izzy place the spell on the kingdom and not on the princess. It makes the audience imagine horns and warts and scales of green that aren't really there.

James Blake

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

Evan Lysacek

I thought I stayed with the program and with the character, and the audience was great, ... Grease.

John Grahame

John played the bagpipes at the bazaar and I was wearing my kilt. It was a visual and audio cue that got a lot of people to come over and talk to us.

John Grahame

John played the bagpipes at the bazaar and I was wearing my kilt, ... It was a visual and audio cue that got a lot of people to come over and talk to us.

Paul Provenza

Johnny can't gain his composure, Ed McMahon is doing his characteristic bull moose guffaw, the band -- the instruments are banging into one another -- the audience is in tears, and every time Johnny would try to gain his composure, he would look at Buddy and it would start all over again.

It is easier to penetrate your audience with one sharp, clean point or idea, thand with a maze of half-baked unremarkable, uninspiring ideas that will never motivate or be remembered.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

Freddie Roach

Manny's Filipino audience loves to watch him, but I wanted it to be more private so we could better work on going to the body and the other things we need to work on. Velazquez is somebody we definitely can't take lightly. Everybody's talking about Morales and the rematch, but there won't be a rematch without winning this fight. We've been working on a little bit of everything to make Manny more of a complete fighter.

I'm hoping to put (my business plan) in front of the right audience and show them that we have a good model for growth moving forward.

Ben Kingsley

I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them there is a violent person in all of us.

George Romero

I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd.

I think Toronto audiences are incredibly sanguine about celebrity, ... The people who come to this festival are really focused on the films.

I think that's probably the greatest thing Oscars brought is that the audience is actually going out to see it at theaters and not waiting to watch it on DVD.

I think that a national audience would take note if such a marvelous facility were in trouble.

It is hard to imagine an all-encompassing Sony brand not participating in the DVD market, home audio and speakers, digital cameras, digital camcorders or even PCs,

Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.

Latino Americans are a huge audience for us. It's an importance audience to us, and one that's continuing to grow very rapidly.

Mircea Monroe

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I went out on auditions because I didn't know if I was coming back on '24,' and then my pilot got picked up, so I was in London for nine weeks.

Joan Chen

I went on auditions for a movie called Year of the Dragon. I was pretty much fresh off the boat, and I had a little baby fat on me. I was a cute - really cute 22-year-old.

Elizabeth Banks

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

John Boyega

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

Sebastian Bach

I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'

Judith Jamison

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Spoken Reasons

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Platform Publishing is working with Disney Online to make Toontown available in the places where families usually shop. Toontown is a breakthrough game that has introduced MMOs to the online family audience. Now we will be introducing the game to a whole new audience who may not have downloaded it in the past. Additionally, we will begin working with Disney on the potential to create Toontown versions for online-enabled game consoles.

Wayne Coyne

People who listen to our music get it, and the ones that don't -- well, it's not for them anyway, ... Our audience is perfect for what we're doing. We don't feel under-appreciated at all.

Our passion - our reason for founding Elephant Eye - is the creation of strong book musicals that not only entertain a wide audience but also strike an emotional chord,