Famous Quotes & Sayings

Just before the bidding was to start, the auctioneer told the audience the manuscript was being withdrawn because it was bought by the society. There was a small round of applause, but the auctioneer acknowledged that some of the bidders in the hall might be disappointed.

That would be doing to our audience and our repertoire what I'm moaning about.

That's what Hollywood films do. They tell you this is a tender moment. Now we want you to cry. I refuse to manipulate the audience that way.

Vanilla Ice

I was playing a record company whore back in the days, a puppet. Everything was staged. I wasn't really designed to be this novelty act; I was turned into one. When I first came out, I was opening for Ice-T, EPMD, and Public Enemy. All of my audience was black.

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.

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.

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.

Lime offers a uniquely targeted and passionate audience that represents the growing consumer trend toward wellness and sustainability. We are happy to partner with them on content distribution and customer acquisition for this unique audience.

Herbie Hancock

Lionel can play anything: totally out, blues, tear-jerking stuff, rock and African, ... Carlos didn't know him, but he trusted my judgment. When Lionel played, he blew everyone's minds -- the audience and Carlos' band. Their jaws were hanging.

It explores the real person and his ambiguities. His personality isn't totally clear cut. He wrote wonderful poetry. A lot of it is erotic and a lot of it is homoerotic. We don't want to paint him as being gay, but he was confused and unsure about his sexuality. It's left up to the audience to decide.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' is going for the 'Scream' audience, ... They want teen-agers who are just hungry for another horror movie.

Robert Black

I think people at the national level are looking at Gov. Perry and the state of Texas. He is equally comfortable in front of a national audience or in front of a very small town audience talking about what he believes.

Rivers Cuomo

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I think President Bush was speaking to an audience at home and to other countries in the region that want to see that the U.S. is still committed to human rights reforms in China, ... The bilateral discussions will be trade, currency exchange rates and more trade, with some side issues like avian flu and energy.

John Hockenberry

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

Kevin Hall

It does give him an opportunity to point out to a national audience how well things are going in Virginia thanks to bipartisanship and a focus on issues that bring people together instead of dividing them.

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

Michelle Monaghan

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

Mark Potok

It has become the propaganda venue of choice, ... It allows Klansmen who a few years ago could reach only 100 people with a poorly produced pamphlet to reach an audience in the millions.

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.