The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
Audience Quotes
Those in the cheaper seats, clap. The rest of you, rattle your jewelry.
Sometimes the difference between a good speaker and a poor speaker is a comfortable nap.
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to […]
It’s not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
I remember being asked to address a state association meeting of funeral home directors. Now, that is a unique group of people. As I entered the auditorium, it was evident the evening was intended to be a formal and possibly ‘dead’ affair. Everyone was dressed in black-and-white formal attire. I stood there wondering what my […]
In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect.
There is now a vast crowd that is a permanent audience waiting to be amused, cash customers screaming for their money’s worth, all fixed in a consumer’s attitude. They look on at more and more, and join in less and less.
The audience is fifty percent of the performance.
As with most audiences when there is a live celebrity on stage, our laughter is performative, disproportionate, and noncontextual: a semaphoric ass kiss across the footlights. Here we are, famous person! We get you!
