(923 quotes found)
“Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.”
Dale Carnegie
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf”
Walter Lippmann
“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”
George Carlin
“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.”
Mary Renault
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce
“. . . when you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.”
Robin Williams
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience”
Anthony Quinn