#audience

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#american #audience #help #really #theater

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. ↗

— Alben W. Barkley

#best #drunk #intelligent #little #well-educated

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#even #function #itself #please #primary

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

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#audience #deaf #music #nothing #requires

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. ↗

— Patti Smith

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Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

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To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask? ↗

— Chip Heath

#communication #get-them-to-think #communication

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie. ↗

— Karl Urban

#enjoy #experience #film #get #hard