Audience Quote by Keith Johnstone

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stand up, it's silent. But…

— Aubrey Plaza

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

— Chris Rock

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

— Aubrey Plaza

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're…

— Adam Conover

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.

— John Nettles

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick…

— Gary Cole

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

— Jeremy Brett

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

— Arthur Miller

I've seen some movies where people improvise and will say some bizarre phrase they had heard the other day, and unless it's coming directly…

— Scot Armstrong

On stage, you have the instant reaction. I'm in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always say, 'I…

— Jim Breuer

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's…

— Paul Rudd

There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the…

— Johnny Carson