Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm proudest of the fact that I fell in step with an audience taste level that I knew how to judge and maybe deliver for, and consistently.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Fergie

I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

Fede Alvarez

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

Anne Graham Lotz

The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

The exit polls are great. Sixty percent of the audience were males. It was 50 percent over-25 and 50 percent under-25. We're going to hang around for a while. I think we certainly have a shot at $200 million.

Philip Pullman

The experience of being in the audience when a play or an opera is being performed is not simply passive. Children need to go to the theatre as much as they need to run about in the fresh air.

Fernando Espuelas

Well the Street has our target date for breaking even at fourth quarter of 2002, and we think it might actually happen earlier. We have real momentum - both in our audience and in our monetization of that audience. So we can see the numbers moving in the right direction, very quickly.

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

What I realized with 'Unbreakable' is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater. So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see -- joy and emotion.

Mary Matalin

What we see and what we all do on cable TV is not what people in the real world want to hear. There's an audience for those kind of books, but there's a much bigger, deeper audience for what I want these books to be - provocative in the sense of thought provoking.

Cyril Cusack

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Alfred Hitchcock

I always take the audience into account.

Rupert Holmes

Kevin was very nice at the Q&A after the movie. He told the audience to go and get the book,

I would suspect we're going to hear about accomplishments but also hear about things that are more for Des Moines (Iowa) and Nashua (N.H.). The larger audience will be the one he's thinking about in the future.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

I think it is ... because the agriculture community in this country is shrinking, and their audience is growing.

Diane Paulus

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.