Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

My Fair Lady. If they can move a London theater audience to applaud, they have done pretty well.

Adam Brody

My favorite episodes of The O.C. are the ones where not much happens, where we take it down a notch. But I don't think the audience agrees with me.

Sarah Silverman

My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

Sharon Osbourne

No, I have no problem with their management. After we did the first show in Boston, I had an email from Rod Smallwood saying that Bruce was concerned that the front rows of the audience weren't really MAIDEN fans and so I kept a couple of rows of seats clear every night so that we could bring in MAIDEN fans in MAIDEN T-shirts to make the band feel comfortable. I was the mug who did this for four weeks. And then this is how Monkey Boy repays me.

Jonathan Demme

Neil would be singing these songs for the first time ever to an audience that never heard them before. He'd be so communicative under those circumstances.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are holding on to their national audiences better (than other media), but the negative side is we're more difficult to buy. The industry is aware of it.

Obviously Seven and Ten will be able to show more free-to-air games which I think is very important, and I think they'll be able to take it to a wider audience than Nine on its own.

Giuliano is a fantastic violinist, and we looked for a program that would showcase him and his skills. He loves to stand up and perform to an audience, and it is hard to suppress him sometimes. He would be happy to play concertos all night, but I'm not sure that audiences could handle that.

Richard Greenberg

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

Fox should be in the business of going after noisy franchise events. It is a little uncomfortable to launch serialized shows. If you don't get people early, it's very difficult for those shows to grow, and they're not great in reruns. But you've got to get fresh audiences coming to try your network, and you've got to cater to their needs.

Fox should be in the business of going after noisy franchise events, ... It is a little uncomfortable to launch serialized shows. If you don't get people early, it's very difficult for those shows to grow, and they're not great in reruns. But you've got to get fresh audiences coming to try your network, and you've got to cater to their needs.

Gavin DeGraw

From being around live audiences in a lot of cities, I've more developed a desire to hear them react, more than I used to,

Shawn Wayans

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

Peter Greene

G4 and IDGE target a coveted demographic that values interaction at every level, ... This new joint promotional venture is a prime example of how non-competing editorial entities can create dynamic content and creative synergies to increase audience reach.

Franz Ferdinand

If all the right people say, 'Go here', then of course they get a huge audience, but that audience has no loyalty, and they are quickly out-cooled by someone else.

Louis Leterrier

I don't want it to be 'Oh, that's the one-shot movie,' ... I don't want to show my directing. I want a great story. A great screenplay. I want it to be amazing. Then, when audience members go see it, they're really entertained and hypnotized for an hour-and-a-half. They come out and their friends say, 'Did you realize the camera never cut back-and-forth?'

Michael Mann

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I expect it will be pretty successful. It will expand the audience for their popular television programs and bring them some revenue.

I expect it's because the French got fourth. We skated good and got first place it's not my business if the audience isn't happy.

I expect the audience will come away having enjoyed a nice light evening of great dancing.

Ram Kapoor

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.

Matt Damon

I don't think it's fair to bemoan our fate, ... I think a movie lives or dies based on its own merit. If it doesn't find an audience in this theatrical release, hopefully down the line it'll be appreciated and Terry will be appreciated for what he's done.

Leonard Susskind

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

Ann Bancroft

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Jason Mraz

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm playing for a roomful of human beings. And geographical and political borders just all dissolve. And we unite through rhythm inhalation. I mean, I'm so grateful that, you know, audiences around the world connect to English music.

Cameron Crowe

I felt like I was seeing it with the audience it was made for,

Janis Joplin

I feel, you know, I hurt, please help.' I'm saying words, man, and if I look at an audience and they ain't understanding me, it's just like getting kicked in the teeth.

I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.

Tony Cox

I can tell a 'guitar audience' within one note.

Jeff Kinney

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.