It is better to leave your audience before your audience leaves you.
Audience Quotes
Sometimes when a speaker has the audience on the edge of their seats, they’re trying to muster up the nerve to get up and go home.
Many speakers confuse the seating capacity of the hall with the sitting capacity of the audience.
Each of us here, has a job to do in this hour. Mine is to talk and yours is to listen. My hope is that you will not finish your job before I finish mine.
I’ve always disliked following other speakers. Once I followed one who was so bad the audience was still booing him all the way through my speech.
When I get through with my speech, there’s usually a great awakening.
The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
I swear audiences meet before a show to decide what sort of audience they’re going to be.
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.
