Audience Quote by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

— Graham Linehan

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

— Magic Johnson

The audience always looks for a change. After a spate of action, and romance, now they want to laugh.

— Kovai Sarala

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

— Ted Alexandro

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

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

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize…

— Jim Dale

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience…

— James Thurber

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

— Kevin Feige

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

— Lorraine Bracco

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through…

— Rockne S. O'Bannon