(923 quotes found)
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
James Stewart
“I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...[some audience members say 'one'], or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening. [Pomp and Circumstance begins playing] I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!”
William Shatner
“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.”
Fanny Brice
“I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.”
Shania Twain
“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
Orson Welles
“American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.”
Sid Vicious
“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”
David Lee Roth
“To a member of the audience who was heckling - 'Don't tell me how to do my job, do I go to your job and tell you how to sweep up”
Billy Connelly
“A low trick I hate to stoop to is tying and untying my shoelaces. It seems to fascinate audiences probably because so many women in the audience have their shoes off, or wish they did.”
Edward Everett Horton
