Captive Audience Quotes

#1. Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Howard Rheingold

#2. The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.

Shawn Amos

#3. When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Jim Dale

#4. My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Bruce Willis

#5. They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

Ridley Scott

#6. On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.

Charles Dance

#7. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Noah Wyle

#8. There is a kind of fallout that happens when you leave college. The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial, place: Your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas. Never again in your life will you have such a captive audience.

Austin Kleon

#9. Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

Danny Meyer

#10. For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Jenji Kohan

#11. I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience ... I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

Edmund Morgan

#12. There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Rohinton Mistry

#13. Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

V.S. Pritchett

#14. Because the brain is the body's captive audience, feelings are winners among equals. And

Antonio R. Damasio

#15. Unless you look dirty, wild, and disreputable, and smell really bad, if you know what your talent is, I guarantee some employer is looking for you

Richard N. Bolles

#16. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Daphne Du Maurier

#17. The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Halle Berry

#18. My heart didn't fail, someone failed my heart.

Jess Rothenberg

#19. I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Dwight Yoakam

#20. To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.

John C. Maxwell

#21. The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#22. With every door that closes a new one opens.

Alexander Graham Bell

#23. I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Garrett Camp

#24. I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

David Hunt