Richard Roeper Quotes
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.Richard Roeper
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
Samuel L. Jackson -
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
Maggie Smith -
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
Rachel Sklar
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Jack Lemmon -
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
Dana Carvey -
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
Ian Mckellen -
Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
Karen DeCrow -
Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
Felicia Day -
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin
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I tend to like dry humor.
Dan Scanlon -
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
T.I. -
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig -
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
Dabney Coleman -
Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.
Patrick Warburton -
Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.
Melina Matsoukas
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
Liam Payne One Direction -
When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
Quentin Tarantino -
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Samantha Morton -
My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.
Eddie Griffin -
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper