Audiences Quotes

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
Laurence Olivier

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
Cab Calloway

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also
Billy Wilder

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction
Michael Faraday

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying
Margaret Chase Smith

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics

A low trick I hate to stoop to is tying and untying my shoelaces. It seems to fascinate audiences probably because so many women in the audience have their shoes off, or wish they did.
Edward Everett Horton

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
Carmen Electra

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them
Ken Dodd

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry

Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now
The Wizard of Oz

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Ralph Richardson

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
Britney Spears

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock







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