(923 quotes found)
“A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”
Walter Savage Landor
“There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.”
Fairfax Cone
“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not”
Edward Albee
“When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”
Cedric Hardwicke
“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”
Ingrid Bergman
“If you want an audience start a fight.”
Irish Proverb
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
Charlie Chaplin
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
Orson Welles
“The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.”
Alben William Barkley
