Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Hawke

I have had so many bad auditions.

When I visit schools, I try to reach kids who perhaps don't have books at home or aren't that keen on reading. Somehow you draw them in with the pictures and then perhaps they'll want to learn more about it. I use a lot of audience participation and find kids who aren't really part of it and try to include them - to draw in those reluctant readers.

Joe Cocker

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

Evan Peters

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.

I can confirm that they dropped support for Real audio and Real video on their server. It's the evolution of the business. We won't comment beyond that.

I do encourage a lot of my audience to give me their interpretation before I explain what was intended. Sometimes I think nobody besides me would understand something, but I often am surprised by people. The overwhelming majority interpret the initial concept and key right in. I find a lot of clientele is much more observant and clever than me.

Sam Worthington

I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

E. O. Wilson

College shows are great. They're a fun, captive audience and are more open-minded.

Chris Hardwick

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

Luciano Pavarotti

I am more than delighted to come back to Washington, DC. I just have the best memories for this great city and I very much hope that the audience will enjoy this special evening as much as we enjoy being there the last time performing for you.

If consumers cared deeply about that kind of tiered pricing schedule, it's not going to happen, because no broadband provider in their right mind, at this point, is going to risk a significant part of its audience for a small increase in its revenue." ()

Pete Hamill

He became out of step with the basic audience, because they didn't believe it. And I think that was the beginning of the end of Winchell. I think it was a self-inflicted wound.

Mark Cuban

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If it is a relatively small thing, like you transpose two numbers, that is less likely to trigger an audit than if you omit a large portion of your income,

If it has a relatively low budget, it's a smart move. If it's something that costs a lot of money, you're really taking a risk. A movie like 'Crash' brought in a younger audience as well. That may be a new type of crossover movie to look at.

Mads Mikkelsen

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

If I could pick one word to describe this musical it would be fun. The cast is having so much fun, the audience is going to have so much fun, everything about this show is fun. Kids will especially love it.

I felt we needed something to help the audience keep up with the changing time periods. I had a collection of slides from Life magazine and picked a few out. I think it brings a reality to the play, showing what the world was like outside.

Greta Scacchi

I felt the thrill of a journey in a play where the writer gives you the power to take the audience with you, to have it eating out of your hand.

Al Gore

I decided to take part in this documentary because the filmmakers convinced me that it was the best way to get the word out to as large an audience as possible, and to convince more people to look at the truth of our circumstances.

Ravi Teja

I did a fantastic emotional film, 'Autograph.' But the audiences rejected me in it. They like to see me laughing and fighting.

Matthew Moy

'iCarly' was one of my first major jobs, actually. I went into that audition and completely failed at it. I completely bombed... I forgot my lines. When I forget my lines, I kind of get angry. They had me do it again; I remembered them, and I booked it.

Rick Springfield

I can wade into an audience now and not lose a limb, so that's great,

Bea Arthur

I don't think there was ever an embarrassment, there was such love going back and forth between the audience and us, that nothing was embarrassing.

William Esrey

I don't think there's a company, a management, an audit committee that hasn't gone back and re-looked at what they're doing. . . . People are really scrutinizing and (want to) really make sure their houses are in order and clean.

Adam Pally

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

Ravi Shankar

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

Frank Deford

I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again,

I do wear tails . . . I think it would be distracting to wear a long dress. You have to look ultra-formal and in command at the podium because, well, you are in command. Or you'd better be. . . . The music should be done so well that the audience forgets if you're a man or woman. There's nothing about conducting that's gender-specific.

David Sanborn

I don't see any way out of that because I think the audience as a whole is not being served and isn't getting excited about going out an buying CD's, and for that matter, going out and going to concerts.

Emeril Lagasse

I am very fortunate that I have a large audience who watches my show, and who seem to love my show, and there's certainly a lot of people contact that comes from that. But that really hasn't changed what I still feel, or how I get up in the morning, or what motivates me to get to work.

Rick Moranis

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.

Mitch Hewer

I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.