Best Audience Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

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Author:Chuck Lorre

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.”

Character Stories Fun Audience Introducing Fun Things

Author:Damon Lindelof

“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

Different Play Character Light Night Actors Simple Audience Theater Every Night

Author:Diego Luna

“Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.”

Audience Ads Susceptible

Author:Max Levchin

“Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.”

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Author:Max Levchin

“You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?”

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Author:Phil Lynott

“I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.”

Two Night Hours Audience Week One Day Majors Schedules Days Of The Week

Author:Lee Majors

“Audiences deserve better.”

Audience Deserve Deserve Better

Author:Leonard Maltin

“What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”

World Want Behinds Audience Exciting Divides Curtains Other Worlds

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.”

Stills Audience Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Method Man

“I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.”

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Author:Paul Mazursky

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.”

Difficult My Own Watches Audience Critical

Author:Tobey Maguire

“I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.”

Audience Type Lucky Appeals

Author:Juice Newton

“When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.”

Feels Audience

Author:Juice Newton

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”

Shows Sound Audience Fronts Terrified

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.”

Trying Hard Interesting Watches Audience Trying Hard

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

Thinking Want Done Bits Realizing Audience Teacher Teaching

Author:Jamie Oliver

“As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.”

Film Roles Audience Stage Good Films

Author:Kevin Pollak

“The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.”

Knows Way Certain Walks Interesting Audience Structure Memorable Etc Interesting Things

Author:Barry Levinson

“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

Knows Wells Eye Jobs Chance Audience Exciting Theatre One Chance

Author:Christine Lahti

“Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.”

Firsts Walks Audience Streets Mirrors Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops

Author:Derek Luke

“One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.”

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“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”

Knows Made Done Film Lying Audience Wonderful Skins Theater Cameras Mediums Wonderful Things Celluloid

Author:Amanda Plummer

“I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.”

Trying Interesting Audience Impossible Interviews Most Interesting Always Trying

Author:Scott Pelley

“You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.”

World Wells Real Audience Real World Grounded

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.”

Thinking Writing Book Audience Sells

Author:Ann Patchett

“Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.”

Difficult Audience

Author:Barry Pepper

“When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.”

Thinking Should Remember Audience Should Have Majority Awards You Re The Best

Author:Brad Paisley

“People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.”

People Want Audience Fingers

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.”

Needs Audience Members Completion

Author:Todd Phillips

“One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.”

Giving Reason Responsibility Audience Percent Theater Fifty Things I Love

Author:William Petersen

“I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.”

People Knows I Can Audience Imagine Comedian Tailors

Author:Colin Quinn

“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.”

Thinking Men Matter Challenges Audience Successful Television Like You Female Relate Being Successful

Author:Maggie Q

“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Stories Audience

Author:Brent Runyon

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.”

Audience Fronts Incentives

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”

Ifs Rooms Practice Audience Pieces Fronts Prove Tape Living Room

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.”

Want Audience

Author:Dario Argento

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