Auditoriums Quotes

• There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.

  Romain Rolland

  People, Theatre, Able

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

  Judith Crist

  Success, Doors, Secret

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• It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

  Tony Snow

  People, Quiet, Introvert

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• The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Theatre, Rooms

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• One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

  Ben E. King

  Distance, Journey, Next

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Music, Witty

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Birthday, Redneck, College

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• Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Frustration, Skulls

  1957 InVogue,1Apr.

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• I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

  Billy Connolly

  Offended You, Differences, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.

  Dave Chappelle

  Fun, Men, People

  "Dave Chappelle Sits Down with Anderson Cooper". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.thehollywoodgossip.com. July 10, 2006.

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

  Eric Clapton

  Funny, Guitar, Play

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• But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.

  James Dashner

  Two, Spy, Needs

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.148, Chicken House

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• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Smell, Atmosphere

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.

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• The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Honor, Vaults

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

  Seth Godin

  Epidemiology, Space, People

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

  George Barna

  Jesus, Died, Transformed

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• I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Art, Play, World

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• The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

  Don DeLillo

  Office, World, Safe

  "Acclaimed writer DeLillo gives rare reading in McCosh 50". The Daily Princetonian Interview,

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• Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wall, School, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Simple, People

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

  Cary Grant

  Anxiety, Insecurity, May

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• It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
  To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.

  R. J. Palacio

  Kids, People, Ordinary

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, 2012.

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• We don't believe in splitting the experience. We don't believe in taking a row out and putting in motion seats [that shake and move in response to cues from a film]. If you walk into that auditorium you're going to have a communal experience.

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Moving, Film

  Source: deadline.com

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