“Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?”

— T. A. Waters

Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 27)

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Quoted in The Observer (12 June 1977)

“We'd seen all the rushes, which we thought very funny, but the premiere audience reaction was cold and so were the reviews. However, the moment it was released it made audiences everywhere laugh like anything, and it showed that our original reaction had been right. What a relief!”

Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) English actress

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“I soon made myself a nuisance by asking far too many questions of everybody. Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business.”

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Black Boy (1945)

“Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?”

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