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Quotes for anybody on stage (and backstage).
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chekhov.us
Quotations mostly... Not by Chekhov, or me.
... dictionary pages -- "A" "audience" pages : spectator.vtheatre.net direct.vtheatre.net ...
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127. Audience decide if you're natural, underplay on your part doesn't make you natural.125. Audience is very sentimental, so remember that when you do your planning.
123. Audience want to see people off guard, not in control. People struggling against problems.
121. Audience reacts to individuals.
119. Audience should be alarmed by the story.
117. Audience only barely listens, they watch, they see the story with their eyes.
115. Audience has to be constantly off balance, one way is change of rhythm.
113. Audience makes it conclusive, so never make a final statement.
111. Audience is the most important character.
109. Audience has to be lead to the edge; the unknown.
107. Audience has to be suspended, 'will he or won't he?'
105. Audience says that's what I had to go through, if you hit the right cords.
103. Audience has to see something more dreary than their lives.
101. Audience is moved by emotions, not ideas.
99. Audience can't laugh when they want.
97. Audience admire courage.
95. Audience appreciate feast, just not cream and cake.
93. Audience get tired of a tennis match, looking back and forth and eventually look at whoever is more interesting. You have to be inventive.
91. Audience does not understand hidden or small meaning in things.
89. Audience reacts to individuals.
87. Audience doesn't listen.
85. Audience doesn't want to watch a quarrel.
83. Audience imagine more in their head than you can ever act out.
81. Audience get tired, you can't wear audience out. In other words, don't get the audience tired.
79. Audience has to be concerned by your problem.
77. Audience has to identify with the characters.
75. Audience has to respect the character.
73. Audience identification is what it's all about. It helps clarify our lives for us.
69. Audience moved to tears, actors can't cry.
67. Audience has to be in the character's head, live other people's lives, know what the character is thinking.
65. Audience wants a hero, not a down person. You can not depress the audience.
61. Audience is interested in characters.
59. Audience is not going to be interested in actor enjoying himself more.
57. Audience is saying yes this is happening.
55. Audience is sentimental slobs in dark, but in light they may be mean.
53. Audience is waiting for the punishment.
51. Audience knows when people are lying, just be honest as actor.
49. Audience is a child, you have to give it to them clear and simple to follow. You have to physcialize it, otherwise, the audience won't understand it. Audience knows the play.
47. Audience likes characters to overcome difficulties.
45. Audience loves to see great people come down.
43. Audience must be interested in characters.
41. Audience must know about character.
39. Audience must know what you want.
37. Audience is a child, you have to give it to them clear and simple to follow. You have to physcialize it, otherwise, the audience won't understand it.
35. Audience says, I've been there and laugh.
33. Audience sees the secret of life and relates.
31. Audience sits there and watches your failures.
29. Audience to be moved and frightened, you can't do that with yelling. Yelling always make you ineffectual.
27. Audience understands and sympathize with character.
25. Audience wants suffering, they want to watch you suffer.
23. Audience demand certain things to happen like the must scene.
21. Audience watches what is the contest.
19. Audience wants worthy opponents.
17. Audience will only respond to feelings.
15. Audience won't react to reverence.
13. Audience wonders, they sit on the edge of their chair.
11. Audience's imagination is what you want to work, so take your time.
9. Audience must discover things from action.
7. Audiences are purists that is being prejudiced in a way.
5. Audience watch it played in human arena, blood thirst. We are beasts, people want blood, they don't want ideas, not intellectual. Give them passion. Give them combat.
3. Audience looking for the bizarre. Beyond their own lives. Arrange and entertainment, interesting and spectacular.
1. Audience lives in actor's imagination, he takes us into a dream.
126. Audience like to watch people try and save themselves.
124. Audience's heart string is what you try to work on.
120. Audience don't laugh accidentally, they laugh when you want them to laugh.
118. Audience wants heart.
116. Audience's pulse has to be played to: "Everybody's life is a failure."
114. Audience will watch your hands, so no hand acting.
112. Audience must sympathize with the human beings you create.
110. Audience must be made to believe it is real, even though it isn't real.
106. Audience is controlled by the attitude of the character.
104. Audience is effected by human values, they are able to react to character and the human experience.
102. Audience's eye is effected by monotony, not one actor right and one actor left all the time.
98. Audience can't anticipate what's going to happen.
96. Audience always for good, motherhood, etc.
94. Audience associate themselves with characters.
92. Audience can take it for a moment.
90. Audience cannot anticipate the tempo.
88. Audience can't wait for anything.
84. Audience assumes tenderness.
80. Audience gets tired of people giving up.
76. Audience has to relate to basic joke.
74. Audience has to understand every word.
70. Audience is turned off by saints.
68. Audience is sitting back.
66. Audience wants vulnerability.
64. Audience doesn't want to be dragged with the character's depression.
62. Audience is extremely sentimental, they are always for the good guy.
60. Audience is moved by the emotion of actor. It has nothing to do with volume.
58. Audience is not interested in defeated character.
56. Audience reacts to individuals.
48. Audience don't like people falling to pieces, they want to see them overcome their difficulties.
46. Audience looking for answers.
44. Audience must afterwards understand it.
42. Audience must believe in problems of people.
40. Audience must know what the screen writer is saying.
36. Audience reacts as a mass, they are for the underdog.
34. Audience sees it as not true.
32. Audience should never know actor is scared.
30. Audience supplies the story, you are simple, simple.
28. Audience to laugh, comedian has a plan for audience to respond.
26. Audience wants a moment to see if it could go this way or that way.
24. Audience wants to get on with it.
22. Audience watch as it occurs.
20. Audience will give up illusions for reality.
18. Audience will not laugh if someone gets hurt.
16. Audience will see the sentimentalism of it.
14. Audience won't sit and just watch conversation.
12. Audience wonders what is going to happen next?
10. Audience doesn't listen, it's about moments.
8. Audience works as a group psychologically.
6. Audience won't sit and just watch conversation. Audience wants worthy opponents. Movies are all about behavior.
4. Audience enjoy undercurrent of problems of disaster; potential violence. Underlying fireworks.
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