Quotes About Audience

While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.

When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a different culture? Until now, we hadn't gone to the Hindi audience with a good story.

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

Let's face it: when we were crazy into wrestling, there were 20 million people on Monday nights watching wrestling. So what you have are 17 million lagged wrestling fans. People who connect to it somewhere, but haven't really found an inspiration or a cultural connection to it.

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

Nintendo prides itself in being a technology-driven, mass-market, entertainment company.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

There's no difference between rocking in front of a crowd or rocking in front of a camera.

No doubt about it, country is a much more family-friendly business than pop.

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.

People kept asking, 'What's your market?' I've got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the BBC to ruin the English language.' Naturally I felt terrible, as I had no idea either that it was happening or that I was responsible.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

I have no interest in playing 'perfect.' To me, it's more about being an entertainer. Having a connection with the audience.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.