Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience – the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or “of those who are to be.”
Audience Quotes
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
The audience was swell. They were so polite, they covered their mouths when they yawned.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Maybe we should invite the audience to rehearsals. (on a joke in a play that tickled the production crew but always died in performance.)
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Be open enough with your listeners that they don’t just hear your words. Bring them close enough to catch the fire of your ideas.
God is a great humorist. It’s just that he has a slow audience to work with.
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.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
