“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.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldBelieveStillsDifferentAudienceMediaProductsHugeLike YouImpactFinancialOne WayVocalFickleFinancial Services Author:Max Levchin
“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.” ThinkingMenMatterChallengesAudienceSuccessfulTelevisionLike YouFemaleRelateBeing Successful Author:Maggie Q
“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.” NeedsSocialRoomsTalkingAudienceLike YouLockedKeep Talking Author:Jonathan Stroud
“I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.” WantTryingHumansEndsAudienceFansLike YouPerformancesHeyEmpoweringThe End Of The DayHanging Out Author:Kate Voegele
“Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.” KidsAudienceFailingLike YouPleasePianoRecitals Author:Rian Johnson
“Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.” Has BeensSongAudienceLike YouPopsSingersThanksYoutubeKoreanGroundwork Author:PSY
“People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMadeLostAudienceLike YouTasteIntelligentDistinctionArtificialUnderestimateMaximsLike YourselfLost Money Author:Douglas Adams
“It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.” WantActorsAudienceLike YouExerciseAimImpulse Author:Ethan Coen
“You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.” ThinkingWantFeelsDecisionVisionAudienceProductsLike YouCreatingWorking ItPhony Author:Rob Zombie
“If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in screenings and everyone's laughing, and they don't know what the hell it's about, somehow you feel excluded from the party, or like you're not in the inner circle. As a performer, that's the worst thing you can do to an audience. It's fun, but you have to be very careful with it.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsFunCan DoPartyAudienceLaughingHellWorstLike YouCarefulHeavyCirclesPerformersWorst ThingsExcludedScreening Author:Hugh Jackman
“In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.” NeedsPlayGuyCareersRolesAudienceLike YouHeroWindowInherentBad GuysProtagonists Author:Ryan Phillippe
“When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.” ThinkingWantWellsUsedStuffSoundRealizingWatchesAudienceColorLike YouScene Author:Andrew Wight
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“Making a fantastical world real is a bit of a challenge, for sure. When you're on set and you have a green screen you're working with where you'll pretend there's a giant lizard chasing you when there's nothing there. Being shown the images of what the creatures were going to look like and then having to react to them realistically without feeling like you're a crazy person. You kind of have to go for it. In order to sell it to the audience, you can't really hold back.” WorldLooksKindPersonsRealFeelingsOrderBitsChallengesAudienceCrazyLike YouCreaturesGreenSellsScreensGiantsChasingLizardsCrazy Person Author:Josh Hutcherson
“The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.” ImportantFeelingsAudienceWiseLike YouSmartIntimateEmpoweringSurprisingFunny ThingsSeeming Author:Gloria Steinem
“I have a fan-base that apparently like you know, people...it's not that they look up to but you have certain figures that, you know, you'd like to be more like and people really love Bella and I do too but I'm not her...I don't think anybody expects me to try to just for the rest of my career appease an audience that once liked "Twilight", you know what I mean?” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingLooksMeanCertainLove IsCareersAudienceFansFiguresLike YouLook UpTwilightAppease Author:Kristen Stewart
“In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience” PlayDreamFilmAudienceLike YouPerformancesReactionsTrappedBad Dream Author:Jonathan Groff
“Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.” FeelsAudienceLike You Author:Signe Baumane
“When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.” FeelsAudienceComedyLike YouBattleEms Author:Rob Riggle
“I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.” IfsThinkingAsksAudienceLike You Author:Rachel Weisz
“This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.” PeopleIfsHumansKindPersonsRealCharacterFilmHuman BeingsAudienceTelevisionLike YouPreparedReal LifeMediumsDecentFilm And Television Author:Christian Cooke
“It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself.” IfsFeelsWellsStoriesCareJobsActorsFunAudienceLike YouPagesStructureTake CareFeedingSpoons Author:Tom Hughes
“If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.” PeopleIfsTalkingAudienceCuttingLike YouWeightFighterSkinnyI Like You Author:Jonathan Tucker