Audience Quotes · Page 183

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an…

— Chris Bauer

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters…

— Laura Ziskin

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the…

— Spike Lee

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of…

— Anne Lamott

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid…

— Don Rickles

I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and…

— Barbara Broccoli

You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I…

— Stephen Merchant

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....

— Joseph Joubert

Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

— Ron Ben-Israel

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the…

— Thomas Bangalter

“And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from…

— Peter Ackroyd

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research…

— Roger Ebert

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

— Theodore Bikel

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is…

— Jon Lovitz

I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have…

— Michael Fassbender

I am truly obsessed with Lena Dunham. I find everything about her unique and refreshing. She is a brilliant, hilarious and honest…

— Spencer Kayden

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

— Heavy D

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is…

— Paul LePaul

The truth is I loved an audience.

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years…

— Steve Earle

Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As…

— Robert McKee

I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep…

— Maureen Stapleton

When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven…

— Robert Hass

I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than…

— Joe Swanberg

I'm always willing to dub myself in all the five languages that I speak for the international market, because I think it's…

— Massimo Dobrovic

There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and…

— Rhea Perlman

I've always stayed independent, but I've always felt an obligation to make movies an untutored audience could like.

— Paul Morrissey

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

— Len Wein

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can…

— Bono

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for…

— Christopher Nolan

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to…

— Paul Rust

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…

— Sammy Hagar

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am…

— Jackie Chan

I never know which camera is on me when I'm dancing and the director picks the shot he likes but it usually…

— Cyd Charisse

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

— Chad Stahelski

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much…

— Hunter Hayes

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

— Gautham Menon

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

— Tabrett Bethell

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience -…

— John Hockenberry