Famous Quotes & Sayings

He explored the space and took the audience with him. He started first in the open space out front and then danced into the cafe'.

This was not a weekend destined to be a blockbuster weekend. Really, really slow. Audiences seemed somewhat indifferent again. That's the scary part for the industry. It really takes a lot to get them out there to see a movie. It seems like any competition, like baseball, really cuts in big-time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is enough room and enough audience to have two teams. We just have to all work together and make it happen.

Katie Holmes

We try to portray a group of kids that the audience will want to be.

We've been trying to get away from the staid, traditional format of chamber music concerts because we're losing audience members to age. Chamber music is too easily seen as blue-hair stuff. That's why we have to get even more creative while maintaining the integrity of the series.

Lynn Fontanne

When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.

Jackie Chan

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

John P. Kotter

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

John Grogan

'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.

We had a way of doing it which was wonderful, ... One of us would go in and say we were looking for my mother. At the door, they said, 'Of course, go look.' We'd go in and open the exit door. Then we ran around the building, pushed the door open and came in. Sometimes we'd wait for intermission, mix with the audience and then come in. Except our clothes were not always acceptable.

Twyla Tharp

I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

Tom Selleck

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

Charles Olson

I was playing catch with the European audience.

Military families on or near base are a captive audience for everyone from used car salesmen to payday lenders.

Stephen Collins

Much of this season is about her growing up, because she was 6 when we started. I don't think this season is going to differ much, though, and that's what has kept us going. We're not a high concept show that has found an audience by stunts or weird guest stars.

John Seabrook

MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24.

me, and I believe everyone in the audience, could not conceive of a sane person doing these things.

Edgar Bergen

My friend Charlie McCarthy is, of course, much more of a celebrity than he was 13 years ago... They wanted to see McCarthy: striped pants, monocle, derby and Bergen's bald head. If that had happened in radio, the reaction would have been slow, diffused and debatable. I wouldn't learn anything from an audience sitting in a broadcasting studio in Hollywood, because those people all are in my business.

Nobody expected them to do 45 million again. To lose about half the audience, that's big. That's dangerous. That's very dangerous.

Matt Lauer

One of the things we want to do in introducing Meredith to our audience and of course bringing over some of her audience.

One of the things we're looking forward to, through MTV's eyes, is telling a worldwide audience that we're open for business.

Lois Lowry

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

Charlie Ward

Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump. We still have to have an audience. Will they come? We don't know, but we're going to give it a good try.

Paul Haggis

Of course I feel guilty about manipulating the audience, playing on their preconceptions in that way, ... But that's my job.

Bob Hope

Of audiences: they were really tough - they used to tie their tomatoes on the end of a yo-yo, so they could hit you twice

One thing we are concerned about is what the audience of the future is going to look like. We've got to capture a new generation to support the S.C. Philharmonic.

Online retailers are extending shipping deadlines later each year, which provides ample time to comparison shop for the best deal. Price remains one of the biggest motivators online and is reflected in large spikes in audience traffic.

My experience of the creativity of our audience leaves me in no doubt that together we'll make some great material.

Chad Coleman

My desire is to continue to make the audience proud of what's happening in the television world of 'The Walking Dead.'

John Perry Barlow

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

Mike Wallace

My 40 years with CBS News have been a fascinating voyage of discovery. Thirty-seven years with '60 Minutes' have given me the chance to travel the globe, meet and report on world issues, and broadcast what I've learned to an audience at home that had long trusted CBS News reporters like Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid.

Roland Martin

My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.

My gut tells me my audience will tell me they don't want to hear it.