The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots
Alfred Jarry
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he
Karl Kraus
The great orator always shows a dash of contempt for the opinions of his audience
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed
Mark Twain
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Kenneth Tynan
If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown
Adam Walinsky
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball