Pay attention Quote by Bill McGowan

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

— Franklyn Ajaye

You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but…

— Charlie Hunnam

As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the…

— Renita J. Weems

“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the purpose of…

— Arthur Martine

“Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

— Dominic Holland

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the…

— Jennifer Stone

“On TV, I can hit the mute button and silence any moron. I wish real life came with a hush button I could push…

— Jarod Kintz

In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is…

— Franklyn Ajaye

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

— Mark Russell

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

— David Steinberg

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

— Alexis de Tocqueville