Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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Dick Ebersol

Story is a driving force of anything in sports and entertainment. Not having the playoffs play out in front of the large audience as they had done in the past I think was one factor.

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.

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.

Robert Thompson

They have the biggest audience of the year. And what we watch is the modern version of a 1950s variety show.

Anderson Cooper

There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going through it with them. I've never pretended to grab onto something. The audience knows when something's real and when it's not.

Frank Spotnitz

There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.

Jorge Garcia

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

There's always a segment of the audience that wants to see all five films nominated for best picture. It's our American version of the running of the bulls at Pamplona.

There's an enormous inner concentration that's necessary to have the proper bearing on stage and to fill out the simple movements with energy. Even when an actor is standing still on stage, there's still an energy projected from that body. The audience should feel it, all the way through the performance.

There's an enormous audience for people who want to interpret what's going on around them and who really enjoy the give and take of debate on political and cultural issues.

Ralph Macchio

There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

There's a mystical quality the audience finds really appealing.

There's always going to be that divide when it comes to pop music. Certain segments of the audience are always going to be distrustful of music that they feel is not authentic. If you get all caught up in notions of realness and authenticity, then Ashlee is going to strike you as being girlish ... and not serious.

There's always going to be that divide when it comes to pop music, ... Certain segments of the audience are always going to be distrustful of music that they feel is not authentic. If you get all caught up in notions of realness and authenticity, then Ashlee is going to strike you as being girlish... and not serious.

James Gray

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

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Frank Gifford

As we looked out over the audience at Canton, Ohio, and looked into the faces of all those people,

Jason Hirschhorn

As with everything we do at MTV Networks, every element of URGE is being developed with our audience in mind. Beyond providing a simple transactional service, URGE will provide a musical playground where fans can explore, customize, discover and download new music.