I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience.… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films… — Walter Koenig Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to… — Rex Harrison 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
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You're going to get different kinds of animation for different kinds of audiences. Traditionally, adult animation has been for the young male… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is loved by a huge range of people. I think the real target audience is people younger than 16. It's because… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys… — Warren Spector Copy Share Image
The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
What frustrates me about some high-concept shows is that they don't give you information until sweeps, but 'Jericho's' audience will get a… — Sprague Grayden Copy Share Image
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Even at 13, I believed that the audience should think that the hardest combination of steps was effortless, and a ballerina's personal… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep… — David Frum Copy Share Image