Audience Sayings & Quotes
These audience sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. - Oscar Wilde
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. - George Carlin
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. - Mae West
The great orator always shows a dash of contempt for the opinions of his audience. - Elbert Green Hubbard
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings. - Arthur Miller
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behaviour of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. - Martha Graham
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. - William Hazlitt
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colourful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. - Dale Carnegie
I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience. - Dame Shirley Bassey
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. - James 'Jimmy' Stewart
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. - Moss Hart
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying. - Margaret Chase Smith
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. - Red Barber
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. - Arthur Miller
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt