If the speaker won’t boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
Audience Quotes
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.
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.
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 boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
