“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.” IfsWishAudiencePoetIndustryAmbitionSakeArguingLecturesCrowdedCitations Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsYoungActorsMillionsAudienceFrontsCollegeAmbitionTheaterWho You AreBest WaySitcom Author:John Lithgow
“I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.” IfsThinkingGivingI CanHardGamesSimpleAudienceTelevisionAmbitionRewardsBoringEnormousAhead Of The Game Author:David Nevins
“I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.” WantedAudienceAmbitionReaching Author:Adrian Tomine
“The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.” FirstsCharacterFilmThreeDealsAttitudeAudienceMinutesDemandAmbitionFormalEntrancesCredulityGateways Author:Peter Greenaway
“The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the movie, and the size and scope of the movie. Pineapple Express was a great success, and that was something that we wanted to capitalize on, but we wanted this movie to be bigger, more adventuresome, bring a bigger audience to the movie, and challenge ourselves to do something new.” WantedFilmChallengesDifferencesAudienceAmbitionBiggerSizeSomething NewScopeGreat SuccessLogisticsPineapplesHighness Author:David Gordon Green
“My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.” LongCareersAudiencePathAmbitionMy AmbitionGuessingLong Careers Author:David Oyelowo
“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.” ThinkingSimpleAudienceCreativeTasteAmbitionIntellectualInstinctWideFocusedCleverMinoritiesSophisticatedSuppressing Author:Rowan Atkinson