Dominic Cooper Quotes

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.

Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting.

I don't even know what is popular.

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.

When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.