His Own Audience Quotes
- A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
- A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for… — Terence Rattigan
- A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal. — Fred Allen