Maggie Smith Quotes

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

My audiences get younger all the time.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.

Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'

There's an age group that's just not being entertained - the boomers. There's a void out there. It's nice to be one of those who can fill that void.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

I think people will always like intelligent TV.

18-to-49 can only be part of the story. There are many more metrics.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.

The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics of video game play, the video game players of tomorrow are older adults.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

I'm too old to be making dis songs.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

I work in an industry where most people are way below 50.