Audience Quotes

The audience is fifty percent of the performance

Shirley Booth

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Tallulah Bankhead

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster

Oscar Wilde

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Tristan Bernard

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf

Walter Lippmann

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

Reba McEntire

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.

Barbara Bush

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on

Alfred Hitchcock

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Paul Gauguin

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

Gertrude Stein

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

Jules Renard

Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.

Jef I. Richards

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience

Anthony Quinn

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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