“It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.” PeopleKnowsI CanSoulThreeNextBornAudienceKnow HowThousandObjectivesMy SoulThirtyNext Time Author:Mike Tyson
“From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.” IfsI CanDifferentCharacterViewsAudienceDirectorsPoint Of ViewFantasticImpressDifferent Characters Author:Stephen Chow
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.” PeopleIfsPersonsI CanDoneHelpingJobsRoomsAudienceTerribleStandardsSpeakers Author:Simon Sinek
“I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.” KnowsGivingI CanDifferentMightLinesMy OwnAudienceGrowing UpComedyGrowingJokesCrossesFormulasTheorems Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.” LooksKindLittlesI CanDifferentAudienceJokesEdgesCrowdsComplicatedHandleHarsh Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.” IfsWantWritingBelieveI CanCareAudienceFrontsTheaterDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Ethan Hawke
“The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".” Has BeensI CanFactsWaitingHoursChallengesAudienceStageStrangeCorporateNot SureDragOccasionalGigsSympatheticVenues Author:Joel Plaskett
“As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets.” LongI CanSometimesAudienceOne ThingOkayBiggerUnits Author:Brian Regan
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.” ThinkingLooksI CanIdeasCharacterAudienceExerciseOffersExperimentsRelateGenreGreat Character Author:Ron Howard
“In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.” IfsWantI CanRealityActionFilmFacesGuyFightingActorsFunActingWatchesAudienceOne DayProveResearchJetOther GuysHmmmFun Movie Author:Jet Li
“I have never seen any of my work, I can't watch it because I am ultra critical. We all have little mannerisms that people may love about us, but can be embarrassing. Perhaps we got teased about them as kids and we may not like them ourselves. That is what it is like for me, I can't look at myself on screen even if the audience loves what I am doing.” PeopleIfsLooksMayLittlesI CanKidsWatchesAudienceCriticalScreensEmbarrassingUltrasMannerisms Author:Josh Peck
“I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.” I CanStoriesReadingTalkingOpinionAudienceInternetMembersMessagesBoardsBuyingVocalPercentagesHardcore Author:Grant Morrison
“I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.” WayWantTryingI CanCharacterEnjoyWorryAudienceInvolvedStakes Author:Willem Dafoe
“I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.” WantI CanHandsAbleNextStuffInterestingAudienceComedyComfortProjectsExpectationsHopefullyPerceiveZoneFrustratedComfort ZoneConfounding Author:Patton Oswalt
“One is never completely satisfied. But I can say that I'm not dissatisfied. I've been very fortunate. I've been given some gifts - to take advantage of the contemporary times when I made movies. Gifts to make audiences laugh.” MadeI CanGivenAudienceLaughingAdvantageSatisfiedContemporaryFortunateDissatisfied Author:Frank Capra
“I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.” I CanAudienceDefinitionsNot Sure Author:Brandi Carlile
“I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.” TryingI CanEnjoyAudienceHopefullyProtected Author:Jeff Koons
“As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.” PeopleWantPersonsI CanEndsWholeActorsBitsAudienceOne ThingEmotionalIndustryShapesWeightShouldersSpectrumFacetsWhole Person Author:Scott Porter
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and at the same time opening their heart. Through sharing my pain I can possibly heal your pain, there is no other feeling like it, money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of Art. I will attempt to do it till my dying day.” HeartArtI CanFeelingsPainArtistActorsAudienceDyingMy HeartHealOpeningCompareTrue MeaningMeaning Of Art Author:Richard Cabral
“I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.” PeopleWantTryingI CanAudienceCommunicateShocking Author:Joe Swanberg
“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 have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.” PeopleIfsWantI CanHappensCareCan DoAudienceHeardHonestVulnerableBeing HonestSomething NewCourageousPuppetsNew Experiences Author:Herbie Hancock
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindI CanHardLightLastsSongAsksProcessCreativityAudienceFireHard WorkExpectationsPercentWriting ProcessVacuums Author:Andrew Bird
“I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.” I CanCareCultureAudienceTheaterFancyPerfume Book:Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Source: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
“I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.” LittlesPersonsI CanRememberAudienceExcitementTouchedThrillShiverEncores Author:Zell Miller