Adam Rapp Quotes

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

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

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.

MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24.

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

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

My audiences get younger all the time.

I don't mind having 16-year-old fans, but I hate just having 16-year-old fans. I want more diversity.

The vast majority of my fan mail comes from older women and gay men.

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

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

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.

I didn't even think demographics until I got to ABC. They were the first to go for 18-to-49. But, at CBS, it was just, 'Let's get 'em in the tent.'

I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.

Every one of our affiliate stations was established and exists to reach women 25 to 54.

What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse brigade.'

I've always been in institutional theater.