Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

The public is never wrong.

I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Public opinion has become the public law

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

My opinion is not valuable to the general public.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

The world is governed by opinion.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.