Audiences Quotes

"A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious."

"It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand."

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster"

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory"

"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

"It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed"

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!"

"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."

"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."

"Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. It all depends on how passionate you are about playing them."

"It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence."

"With half of Broadway audiences coming from outside the New York area and Broadway being the No. 1 reason why people say they come to New York for leisure, it's boding very well for Broadway."

"I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good."

"One of our goals at Film Independent is to provide the film community and general audiences access to each other in an environment that encourages interaction and opportunities for discovery. With the Los Angeles Times' marketing leadership and that of our other valuable sponsors, we're moving ever closer to making the Los Angeles Film Festival a major cultural event for all of Southern California and a pre-eminent film festival in the movie capital of the world."

"Every crowd has a silver lining."

"Surveys that deal with Generation X and younger indicate these audiences love this stuff. They are not concerned at all with the privacy aspects of this stuff. As long as nobody uses that information against them, they don't have any problem, as long as it makes the experience better."

"I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away."

"The Internet gives them direct access. It even allows them to segment their audiences so they can communicate with potential recruits, with those who are already in the organization, and with broader sympathetic audiences as well as their enemy. They can do ... modern marketing and these communications have enabled them to be very, very effective and they've been increasingly adept in exploiting this. I don't think we have yet fully fathomed the sophistication of their communication strategy."