Audience Quotes

Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. (H. L. Mencken)
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. View quote
Walter Lippmann
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. View quote
Billy Wilder
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. View quote
William O. Douglas
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable. View quote
David Fincher
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? View quote
Quentin Crisp
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. View quote
Jimmy Stewart
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. View quote
Vivien Leigh
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. (Bryan Ferry)
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. View quote
Mary Renault
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. View quote
Rebecca West
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. View quote
Will Rogers
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. View quote
John Cale
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. View quote
Lenny Bruce
A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. View quote
Terence Rattigan
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. (Alfred Hitchcock)
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. View quote
Arthur Miller
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience. View quote
Anthony Quinn
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. View quote
Voltaire