An audience is like a broad. If you’re indifferent, Endsville.
Audience Quotes
(A woman cornered him and said in a treacly, gushing voice: “Doesn’t it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?”) “It is quite flattering,” Mr. Churchill replied, “but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political […]
When Dr. Edith Sitwell and her brother, Sir Osbert Sitwell, were in Hollywood, they gave a reading of their poems. Sir Osbert suddenly turned to the audience and asked: “Can you hear me?” One man answered: “No.” Sir Osbert replied: “Then pay a little more attention.”
If the speaker won’t boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever renewed audiences before to reenact an ideal version of their lives.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience […]
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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.
