Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Television is intensely personal.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

Audiences are audiences.

It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.

That audience is there for me.

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

If I'm on a show, then that's my favorite channel.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.