Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Hofstetter

Some people get offensive at some of my jokes. It was nice to see that this audience 'got it.' Nothing I say is offensive, but just good debating points.

Mick Jagger

Some days, you don't feel motivated. It's cold. You have a cold. You feel crappy. But as soon as you get out there, the audience gives you an extra buzz.

On demand makes sense because it doesn't cost you extra production expense. The show is done. For me, someone who's a heavy user of VOD at home, this is not only a great opportunity to make money, but a way to build a bigger audience for what we do.

Peter Russell

Now audiences will be able to hear opera the way it is supposed to sound.

Matt Mullenweg

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

Actually, I don't think Bond has ever been particularly relevant to the modern world. When you look at the other big movies of recent years, like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, you wonder if it matters. The franchise has got more popular with each consecutive film. The question now is how much they deviate from the expected formula. Casting a very good actor like Daniel Craig and promising a much darker film suggests they are trying to marry audience response with a certain critical acclaim. That's very encouraging.

Michael Douglas

Actors have always done well playing the bad guys in movies. Audiences enjoy bad guys because through these characters, normal people are able to experience, vicariously, what its like to be vicious, nasty, and amoral. Kindness is not rewarded very much as far as drama is concerned.

Sonny Chiba

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Samuel Barnett

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

Macy Gray

The more I did it, the more I evolved on my own time. I'm at the point now where I get up on stage and tell myself that even if the audience doesn't have fun, I'll have fun. I just get up and party.

The more devices people have, the more experiences they want, and the more occasions they have to become an audience. In our company, despite the fact our audience is going online, our ratings are (the) highest ever. Our series ' Laguna Beach ' is available to consumers online or with their cell phone. The television is not the center of the universe; it is one piece of a hub.

Don Bluth

Dragon's Lair, for some reason, still commands shelf-life. If you go into a store, they will have Dragon's Lair somewhere in the store. And for 18 years this has been going on. So let's say that must mean there's an audience that wants to see it.

Jonathan Raban

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

The target audience is technology enthusiasts. But it can be broadly used. We feel very good about it.

Roger Ebert

The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate them.

The three newcomers kind of had a rough time in this marketplace, ... We think the audiences were fragmented and sent in a lot of different directions.

The Super Bowl presented a great opportunity for us to reach an enormous audience with news of Blockbuster Online's expanded in-store benefits.

The Summer Games have typically gotten bigger audiences and higher ratings.

The speaker did an excellent job. What made it really good was that he spoke at a student level, rather than at the level he could have and that helped the audience understand better.

The text, images and video people have been generating is extraordinary in the manner in which it takes our online audience into the heart and soul of the story.

The thing about Beatles music is that everybody knows it. If you play Beatles music, the audience is already there, and they're waiting to be entertained by you. All of a sudden, they're transformed to another place.

Amy Hoggart

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

Sarah Mlynowski

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.

Mark Frost

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

Simon Raven

I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish (meaning that they rank good taste over bad). And who believe that nothing and nobody is special.

Doug Hutchison

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

Ray Romano

I wanted to do something different, but it's a weird transition you're making here. You're trying to get the audience to come with you.

Beth Gibbons

I wanted to do live things, needed an audience. Geoff was more of a studio-guy. A real programmer. So pretty soon it was: nice to meet you, bye.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.

Larry Scott

Sony Ericsson is changing the face of women's tennis through the convergence of our sport with technology and music, ... These concerts are just one of the ways our partnership with Sony Ericsson will be bringing new and younger audiences to our game and heightening the overall fan experience for everyone who attends our tournaments around the world.

Colin Hay

Sometimes I'm out on tour and you feel you're really getting somewhere and the audience is building and there's five or six hundred people coming to see you every night just from word-of-mouth. And then you go somewhere and you feel like you've gone back a decade and you're playing to 15 or 20 people. You think to yourself, 'Should I change my life, get another job?

Terrestrial broadcasters are going to have to do a lot to hold on to the audiences they have amassed.

Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.