Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrice Arthur

I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.

I'll be spending time in Munich and London with the goal to do auditions and spend even more time over there.

Melanie Lynskey

I'll audition for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director wants you, the creative people want you, but the studio is saying no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a guarantee; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines.

Mike Birbiglia

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.

David Hare

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

Deval Patrick

I frequently feel when I listen to him and to many other elected officials that they are speaking to an audience not in the room.

I personally believe that the black audience is eager to have shows about their culture and history, ... When that material is put onstage, they are quite eager to get out and see it.

Courteney Cox

I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a lot about the details of her inner life and the way she coped, a lot more than how I was going to look. Since the story is open to interpretation, I thought it was really important that the character be emotionally accessible, that the audience would be able to identify with her struggle.

If you don't get the audit committee piece right, you have kind of missed.

Mitch Hedberg

I like to close my eyes on the stage, because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I really wish he would be here for this milestone but God had another plan, ... If you look at the work he's done, at what Linda Johnson Rice is doing, you see we're reaching out to a broader audience and a new generation.

I remember that Jerry was kind of cocky, like he always is, but that he was also pretty gracious to the audience when they applauded him.

Denis Leary

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

Luciano Pavarotti

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience,

I love mystery. I love getting the audience to feel that they are part of something special, something different.

Pierce Brosnan

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

Marvin Hamlisch

I love the idea that a whole new cast of characters, a whole new audience is going to see what we think is a very important and wonderful show.

Roger Lewis

I love Steamboat. The audience is really uplifting. The vibe is always good. It's just a hip environment.

Jackie Earle Haley

I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

Wanda Sykes

I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. It was like a damn terrorist attack. I was onstage in Washington, D.C., and the audience was talking. Some of them even turned their backs to me. I was paralyzed. I couldn't even move. I just kept talking until I heard my mother yell out, 'Wanda! Get off the stage!'

James Burrows

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

Jonas Armstrong

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Morgan Saylor

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

In these situations, nothing is more important than communication. In every direction and to every audience or constituency. At the College, this meant staff, faculty, management, trustees, students, parents, regulators and even the public. But you cant do it all at once. You can do anything you want, but not everything you want.

David Walton

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

I heard the audience scream, and knew how hard it must have been for her. But I tried to stay away from it emotionally and focused on what we had to do.

I haven't seen evidence of a big audience spike yet.

Drake Bell

I really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.

Chris Bauer

I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'

Hire if you need to, or, for not getting what they want from a current site, fire if you need to. The time is now. Your audience is waiting for you.

Horror always has a consistent audience. That doesn't often translate into blockbuster numbers but since they tend to be cheaper anyway, they don't need to do over $100 million.

David Roth

Howard took his old audience. We're after a new one.