I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news.… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see. — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard? — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
