Aidan Turner Quotes

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Big films help your reach a wider audience, and doing independent films keeps your artistic side happy.

The Situation has mass appeal.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.