Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

John Cale

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

Karen Finerman

I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.

The only way to remedy the problem of declining audiences is to look at plays that generate excitement. We feel like we have a strong lineup. It's very current.

I believe the Grateful Dead would have inspired much less of an emotional loyalty in their fans without his lyrics. Robert Hunter really located a traditional sense of character and story line found in English literature and childhood ballads ... and placed it in the heart of the weirdest, most experimental music that mass audiences ever fell in love with.

Graham Coxon

But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned.

Martha Stewart

I look forward to collaborating with Mark... to bring more of our unique blend of original high-quality, educational and inspirational programming to our loyal viewers and new programming to new audiences in prime time next year,

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.

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.

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,

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.

Ram Kapoor

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

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.

Tony Cox

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

I am just so proud of John. I can't hardly stand it, but I also look forward to watching a kid whose other hobby in those days was fishing in the lake on the backside at Campbellsville Country Club mesmerizing TV audiences for years to come and to think Kehoe wanted him to go to Louisville." ()

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

What I realized with 'Unbreakable' is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater. So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see -- joy and emotion.

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

Alan Lomax

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Harry Potter' is already considered a timeless family classic that audiences all over the world have embraced in record numbers. We think that ABC, with its multifamily platforms, is a terrific vehicle to showcase this film.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

You have to find nontraditional ways to reach the audience,

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Katori Hall

Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season.

We are exploring ways to prevent that information - specifically Social Security numbers - from being available to mass audiences through the Internet.

It is a bit shocking no movie had done it. Still, the weekends have been pretty strong. I think we're getting a better idea of delivering what audiences want.

I was concerned initially. But when I saw it with an audience, I relaxed. Bottom line is, out of 600 test cards, only one mentioned it.

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.

I think we're enormously pleased with it on all fronts. This show seemed to strike a chord with audiences and with the critics.