Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.

Steve Buscemi

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

Ryan Gosling

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Ryan Reynolds

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

This site is one essential prong in a Red Cross campaign to reach out to the Hispanic community. We need to share with our Spanish- speaking audience what the Red Cross offers and how everyone can join us to help others in need.

Coconut Grove helped us get the rights. The play moved me and seemed perfect for our audience. It felt like it was in the stars for me to do.

Denver was part of a national trend. Talk-radio audience ratings were flat around the country.

A one-year gap between films is pushing it as it is. Normally you want two years between sequels. An audience needs a little time to regroup.

Boy George

Antony is so honest and so powerful, and that is what makes a true star. I've seen audiences twitch when he performs, because some people get very uncomfortable with such raw vulnerability. But I love it. It's what we need.

An individual person building an audience and a business through self-created content ? that's not been possible before.

Harold Ramis

And then there's some certain physical similarities just in stature and the way they move. They move funny. Belushi used to just walk out onstage, audiences would laugh. And I see that in Jack.

Mary Tyler Moore

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Harvey Pekar

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Anything that goes out of control with the marketing machine of a movie can cause a problem. The way audiences often get wind of it is when there's a trailer or posters in theaters, and suddenly the movies are gone.

Bryan Batt

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.

Hector Ruiz

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Hector Ruiz

Our customers and partners are interested in two things -- innovation and societal impact, ... By gathering this elite audience together, we hope to not only offer insight on new technologies and best practices, but also to provide new ideas for new technologies that can have a positive effect on the world.

Ben Folds

People rush around in the summer to try and find like-minded musicians to put together. Packages are all the rage. I prefer keeping it smaller, having a tour that's manageable -- both for me and the audience -- and Rufus and I go together in certain ways. We're both out of step with any kind of music scene. We don't really fit in anywhere. I think we feel similarly disenfranchised -- in a good way. Also, I can listen to Rufus every night. That's important.

Leon Bridges

People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people.

Opie and Anthony have proven their determination to succeed in this business, and have a relationship with their audience that is second to none in the industry.

The movie's weekend numbers were on the high end of what we expected. You have 'Harry Potter' next weekend, and it's a different audience than most of the competition, so it should bode well for our film going forward.

The movie is incredibly dynamic and tremendously entertaining. It's a new kind of entertainment for all kinds of audiences.

Steve Allen

AFL ratings would be expected to go up, but they will only get the big increases if the Swans continue to draw an audience in Sydney.

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D. H. Lawrence

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Mike Birbiglia

After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Jack Gleeson

Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of video wore off. We had to evolve with our audience and develop beyond a radio model.

Angela Jones

Every year, we have people willing to discuss the films, audience members who just can't get enough, so this time we're going to offer an international film forum for people to come out and talk about the movies.

Every year they come back with less of an audience, ... so the more they can do to sustain themselves (in summer), the better.