Audience Quote by Woody Allen

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

— Adam McKay

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the…

— Jason Aldean

Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for.

— Julia Holter

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

— Stephan Pastis

“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only…

— Amor Towles

As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.

— Reggie Watts

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

— David Ives

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums;…

— Emma Donoghue

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

— Bob Kerrey

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

— John Medina

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

— Agnes Varda

It's always hard for me to go to sleep after a show, just because you still have adrenaline going.

— Big E