Silent Audience Quotes

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

I remember when John Carpenter made 'The Thing;' I saw that in the theater with the Necros. Both of our bands went and nobody said a word until it was over. That's the kind of thing I like.

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.