audience, n.Definitions

The Audience is ideally intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

The Audience is a thing without which the actor is rehearsing.

The Audience itself must be great in order to have great poets.

An Audience is a thing one can never predict what it is going to respond to..

Audience is often wrong and the task is not to kowtow to them, but to lead them.

The Audience is not the least important actor in the play and if will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

The Audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark is critical genius.

The Audience is, despite how it feels to the performer, not judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.