I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
I truly feel absolutely at home on the stage. It's very comfortable to me. It's very much my workplace, very much my… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better.… — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See? — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
Explaining 'The Price Is Right' is probably going to make it sound like the most moronic show ever. I invite people out… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would… — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives… — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them. — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
I like to acknowledge the audience. It seems foolish to pretend they're not there. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience. — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Most of what I like doing in performing is connecting with an audience. What's the point of doing standup if you're not… — Rose Matafeo Copy Share Image
“(Reed looks out over the audience from the stage) "Some of them don't even move, they stand riveted in a kind of… — Paula Coots Copy Share Image