“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
“The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?” KindSupportAudiencePercentMalesGenderDepressingRunaway Author:Joan Jett
“If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.” IfsThinkingHumansMeanDoeMadeImportantDifferentWholeCultureThreeCareersAudienceRecordsGreaterFiguresPercentAppreciateAgreeJazzWorriedSignificanceDistinctive Author:Dave Douglas
“Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.” FilmAudiencePercentBuiltScreensMediocreNinety Author:George Clooney
“Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.” ThinkingStatesAudiencePercentConquerAbout YourselfStoppingThinking About YouConquering FearThinking About Yourself Author:Tony Robbins
“I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.” KindWhiteAudiencePercentFolksHipster Author:David Cross
“I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.” WayWritingI CanBeautifulGuySongAudienceSeeingRocksPercentBunchOne WayBeautiful WomenGreat Love Author:Sammy Hagar
“Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.” IfsStuffLosesAudienceHellCrazyTrumpPercentDiscussionPerformersSyriaSoberViewersEntertainers Author:Van Jones
“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.” YearsPastMotherCoursesAudienceHugePercentGainsOperationsEndeavorAwardsStaffEditorialsMultimedia Author:Clara Jeffery
“Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.” BookShowsOrderAudienceFiveReaderPercentInsightWitConsistentlyImpressedViewersColumnsRestrainingRestraining Orders Author:Richard Roeper
“I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.” IfsKnowsStillsBigsLosesNumbersAudienceTvsPercentWineLibrary Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.” AudiencePercentPenetrateCables Author:Tom Brokaw