Audience Quote by Jim Dale

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time…

— Twyla Tharp

I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you.

— Terry Wogan

“People laugh because they're nervous, or to cover up tension, or to flirt, or because there's some instant applause meter in their head telling…

— Lindsey Leavitt

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

— Vince Vaughn

People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to…

— Jim Norton

I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.

— Jim Norton

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going…

— Franklyn Ajaye

When I was a kid I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always…

— Julie Kavner

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

— Julian Barratt

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who…

— Taika Waititi

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are…

— Tommy Lee Jones