Public quotes

“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public.”
David Krumholtz - Mr. Universe

“Audiences know what they expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“In order to make movies you have to think about the audience. You have to - otherwise you're just making movies for yourself. It's like, eh, like artistic masturbation.”

“Out of all the people in the world, you never gave anybody else, and look, I love you like a step-brother, but you never gave nobody else a chance t- to play their own music, you complain about... That's right, the people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play shit that they like. If you played the shit that they like, then...” (continue)(continue reading)

Wesley Snipes - Shadow Henderson (Sax)

“- Mary Crawford: We all need an audience, wouldn't you say, Fanny?
- Fanny Price: To be truthful, I live in dread of audiences.”
Embeth Davidtz - Mary Crawford
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Why would you possibly want to be in a play when you could be in a film?
- Greta Schroeder: An audience gives me life. This... thing only takes it from me.”
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Catherine McCormack - Greta Schröder

“They don't understand that you're the same person when you're hitting or not. No. The only person you should play for is yourself.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“The media, the corporations, the politicians have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.”
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“You know these actors are mainly models, which are mainly faggots. And the rest are assholes. Know what bugs me the most about those soaps? It's people with no lives, watching other people's fake lives.”
Aaron Eckhart - Del Sizemore

“- Fred Collins: They're clamoring for an encore, Mr. Ford. Will you do another song?
- Gene Autry: I'd be glad to.”

Rex King - Fred Collins
Gene Autry - Gene Autry

“You have to look inside and ask this question: who are you trying to entertain - the audience or yourself?”

Danny DeVito - George Shapiro

“You can't have some secret world in your mind and another one on the street.”
Mariel Hemingway - Alice Parks

“- Eddie: Do you remember that people pay to come and see you guys? People spent $2,000 on season tickets up in the nosebleed sections because they think you guys are worthwhile. And what about the little kids? Oh, forget about them, huh? The little kids who actually think you guys are heroes - stupid them!
- Darren Taylor: Two thousand dollars...” (continue)(continue reading)

Whoopi Goldberg - Eddie
Mark Jackson - Darren Taylor