Related
I had dinner with Megan Mullally (
WILL & GRACE Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
VICTORIA CLARK![]()
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wro...
ADRIAN TOMINE I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and the...
ADAM LAMBERT When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you sta...
JONATHAN GLAZER![]()
The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want ...
DAVID E. KELLEY I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in...
ALAN RUCK![]()
You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
RICHIE NORTON I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my go...
ERIC WHITACRE![]()
Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience...
GARY OWENS If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulner...
JACK LEMON![]()
When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very sm...
ETHAN HAWKE As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
CHANG CHEN-YUE When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that the...
STEVE COOGAN Treat your entire audience with the same level of care.
CENDRINE MARROUAT But all the cutbacks couldn't attract enough of an audience or build that donor base so that they co...
FRAN DREW Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you t...
BO BENNETT![]()
With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting t...
GUS VAN SANT When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form...
CARLTON CUSE With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two ...
DAVID IVES![]()
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a...
ADAM DRIVER At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
MEREDITH WHITNEY![]()
'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-mak...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working...
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the...
KRISTEN SCHAAL![]()
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
DOUGLAS DUNN![]()
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til t...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS [Megan Mullally:] When the stock market dips he blames it on ... but it's, that's just a little thin...
WILL & GRACE![]()
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
ADAM MCKAY Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept r...
ROBERT FRIPP The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix'...
JOEL SILVER![]()
As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'...
DREW GODDARD I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it'...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN They generally attract a mixed audience of men and women.
NEAL PILSON We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge aud...
ANTHONY PADILLA We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next...
VALERIE SIMPSON I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day ...
WALT HANDELSMAN![]()
Don't limit your audience.
NASH GRIER You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
DAVID HENRY HWANG![]()
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b...
TOM SELLECK![]()
The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.
EDWARD TUFTE![]()
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what the...
DWAYNE JOHNSON![]()
The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ...
MATT GROENING![]()
My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type o...
LISA SNOWDON You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. An...
STEFON DIGGS What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funn...
MAGGIE CAREY![]()
With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: t...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES![]()
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making be...
BERNARD CORNWELL You have to scream really loud and really compel the audience to choose your show over the array of ...
DAVID JANOLLARI I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
PATRICK WARBURTON![]()
I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. ...
DAVID TENNANT Ultimately, behavioral targeting drives audience. Optimization is about driving performance. With be...
BRAD BENDER All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but n...
DOUGLAS WOOD![]()
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a c...
GLENN BECK![]()
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older p...
KURT LODER![]()
You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place o...
JOHN KRASINSKI That is ridiculous. During the super stage, going 120, you fly by the audience so close you could sh...
MANFRED STOHL Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be ...
SHANE CARRUTH![]()
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reachin...
JERRY GARCIA![]()
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD![]()
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ...
REX HARRISON I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want...
RIC OCASEK![]()
The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simp...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR![]()
I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audi...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
NORBERT LEO BUTZ![]()
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
MANUEL PUIG![]()
I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to ...
LUKE BRYAN Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v...
BARBARA BROCCOLI The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in ...
TOPHER GRACE![]()
Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at l...
CHAD KROEGER Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW![]()
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a s...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON![]()
Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the...
ANDY COHEN We will continue to raise the profile of Glasgow to a worldwide audience.
ALEX MOSSON![]()
the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.
TRENT REZNOR Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only ...
ADAM PASCAL![]()
I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody sa...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES![]()
Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need...
DRAKE![]()
I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can ...
VINCE VAUGHN The speaker did an excellent job. What made it really good was that he spoke at a student level, rat...
CHARLES ROGERS![]()
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can b...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience,...
LESLEY ANN WARREN![]()
. . . when you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Certainly it's a juggling act when it comes to scheduling tennis. You've got fans on site, you've go...
DAVID NEWMAN When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't ...
ZEDD We haven't been officially notified that we're playing the opening game of the season. But it would ...
DAVE LOCKETT![]()
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fi...
MARIAN ANDERSON![]()
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again...
KIM CATTRALL You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something yo...
JOHN DARNIELLE You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the c...
PAGE MCCONNELL![]()
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get of...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN![]()
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best ...
JAMES GRAY![]()
It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when...
DAVID A. R. WHITE I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a...
ALEXANDER SIDDIG
WILL & GRACE Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
VICTORIA CLARK
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wro...
ADRIAN TOMINE I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and the...
ADAM LAMBERT When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you sta...
JONATHAN GLAZER
The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, ... DAVID A. R. WHITE You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want ...
DAVID E. KELLEY I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in...
ALAN RUCK
You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own. RICHIE NORTON I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my go...
ERIC WHITACRE
Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience... GARY OWENS If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulner...
JACK LEMON
When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very sm... ETHAN HAWKE As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
CHANG CHEN-YUE When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that the...
STEVE COOGAN Treat your entire audience with the same level of care.
CENDRINE MARROUAT But all the cutbacks couldn't attract enough of an audience or build that donor base so that they co...
FRAN DREW Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you t...
BO BENNETT
With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting t... GUS VAN SANT When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form...
CARLTON CUSE With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two ...
DAVID IVES
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a... ADAM DRIVER At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
MEREDITH WHITNEY
'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-mak... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working...
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the...
KRISTEN SCHAAL
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. DOUGLAS DUNN
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til t... STEPHEN SONDHEIM If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS [Megan Mullally:] When the stock market dips he blames it on ... but it's, that's just a little thin...
WILL & GRACE
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them. ADAM MCKAY Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept r...
ROBERT FRIPP The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix'...
JOEL SILVER
As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'... DREW GODDARD I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it'...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN They generally attract a mixed audience of men and women.
NEAL PILSON We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge aud...
ANTHONY PADILLA We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next...
VALERIE SIMPSON I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day ...
WALT HANDELSMAN
Don't limit your audience. NASH GRIER You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
DAVID HENRY HWANG
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK
The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience. EDWARD TUFTE
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what the... DWAYNE JOHNSON
The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ... MATT GROENING
My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type o... LISA SNOWDON You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. An...
STEFON DIGGS What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funn...
MAGGIE CAREY
With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: t... MIRIAM MARGOLYES
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making be... BERNARD CORNWELL You have to scream really loud and really compel the audience to choose your show over the array of ...
DAVID JANOLLARI I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
PATRICK WARBURTON
I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. ... DAVID TENNANT Ultimately, behavioral targeting drives audience. Optimization is about driving performance. With be...
BRAD BENDER All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but n...
DOUGLAS WOOD
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a c... GLENN BECK
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older p... KURT LODER
You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place o... JOHN KRASINSKI That is ridiculous. During the super stage, going 120, you fly by the audience so close you could sh...
MANFRED STOHL Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be ...
SHANE CARRUTH
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reachin... JERRY GARCIA
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ... REX HARRISON I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want...
RIC OCASEK
The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simp... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR
I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audi... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
NORBERT LEO BUTZ
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. MANUEL PUIG
I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to ... LUKE BRYAN Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v...
BARBARA BROCCOLI The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in ...
TOPHER GRACE
Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at l... CHAD KROEGER Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a s... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the... ANDY COHEN We will continue to raise the profile of Glasgow to a worldwide audience.
ALEX MOSSON
the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. TRENT REZNOR Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only ...
ADAM PASCAL
I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody sa... MIRIAM MARGOLYES
Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need... DRAKE
I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can ... VINCE VAUGHN The speaker did an excellent job. What made it really good was that he spoke at a student level, rat...
CHARLES ROGERS
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can b... SAMUEL L. JACKSON You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience,...
LESLEY ANN WARREN
. . . when you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things. ROBIN WILLIAMS Certainly it's a juggling act when it comes to scheduling tennis. You've got fans on site, you've go...
DAVID NEWMAN When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't ...
ZEDD We haven't been officially notified that we're playing the opening game of the season. But it would ...
DAVE LOCKETT
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fi... MARIAN ANDERSON
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again... KIM CATTRALL You want the song to be at least at the same level of goodness throughout. Whereas with something yo...
JOHN DARNIELLE You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the c...
PAGE MCCONNELL
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get of... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best ... JAMES GRAY
It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when... DAVID A. R. WHITE I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a...
ALEXANDER SIDDIG
I love the beach, and I love sunshine. 
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love... 
I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own. 
My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings ... 
High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room... 
Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver valu... 
The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six ... 
I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and t... 
We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want... 
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. 
My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They... 
I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him ... 