Quotes About Reception

Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

I did wear those shoes to my wedding, and I ended up twisting my ankle on the way out of the synagogue. I limped through the entire reception. I couldn't dance at all. My mother's advice had always been sound.

far, although husbands who have terrible accidents are usually received warmly (extra points if he dies, and she finds love again). Maeve Binchy is popular for a while, until Margene, who in another life had been an investment

Of hope and optimism I have none … because instead I have experience. I know the reception I'll meet with.

No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher's character and a sermon's reception. If

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.

Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people.

When I made 'Vicky Donor,' people said it's not a family drama, it is for youngsters. But families also went and watched the film. Same happened with 'Piku' and 'October.'

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like I'm better off without reading them.

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

But I am tired of sympathy. Of feeling it, at least. I'd welcome receiving it, if only to salve all this self-pity.