“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.” GivingReasonResponsibilityAudiencePercentTheaterFiftyThings I Love Author:William Petersen
“The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.” WantedFunViewsAudienceWonderfulFansMembersPercentCelebrateCrewClipOne Life To Live Author:Kassie DePaiva
“I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.” ArtPurposeAudiencePercentArt IsVery GoodIntimacyGood RelationshipPurpose Of Art Author:David Hare
“I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!” TryingCountryPresidentWhiteAudienceVictoryMoonSucceedSpeechPercentWake UpGratefulOur CountryAfrican AmericanEtcVotersWakingBlack PeoplePresident ObamaAsianHispanicPunditsAsian AmericanHallelujahPolarizing Author:Maya Angelou
“I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.” PeopleBelieveCertainAudienceSeaFiguresPercentRiversTwentiesCaughtFishesBoatDimensionsLakesFishingFifthFisherman Author:Ed Zern
“Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.” GivingProblemEnergyBehindsAudienceFansStagePersonalityPercentBurden Author:Koko Taylor
“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.” FirstsCharacterShowsDarkAudiencePercentHundredFirst TimeSpotsFiftyIntroducingSixtyLit Author:Peter Stormare
“You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingCoursesSimpleAudiencePercentCrowds Author:Judd Apatow
“The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.” KnowsTwoDifferentEndsHappensSportsHurtAudienceLandFrontsPercentBoxingWrestlingRugbySlamPingPing Pong Author:Mickey Rourke
“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