Quotes About Audience

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

And I think 'Offspring' has given me that opportunity to really appreciate the audience and want to entertain them and make it the best drama I can.

It definitely feels different to perform to people who know your music. Because people's feedback is not just, 'Oh my God, that was amazing. Who are you?'

There was a time when people were like, 'Oh my God, Sheamus' character is boring.' Well, when you're just in wrestling matches all the time, and you're not doing character stuff, then it can be a bit monotonous.

I love that my music is connecting with people, but I don't think there'll be a point where I feel like, 'Oh yeah, I'm famous now.'

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

I want to be one of those old-fashioned entertainers.

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids right through to pensioners. It seems to be a show that people watch as a family, so it was the first job I've been involved in that certainly my oldest daughter and my middle daughter are big fans of, and proud that I'm in it, which is a nice feeling.

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.