On the whole, audiences prefer that art be not a mirror held up to life, but a Disneyland of the soul, containing Romanceland, Spyland, Pornoland and all the other escapelands which are so much more agreeable than the complex truth.
Audience Quotes
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower the stage Allotted us to play the sage! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sit before us! How many prompters, what a chorus!
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
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 […]
