Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Source: In The Fabulous Fanny, ch. 6 by Norman Katkov, 1952.
-- Fanny Brice, (Oct 29 1891-1951), US singing comedienne; She performed satiric sketches of ballet dancers, fan dancers, and vamp actresses for many years in the Ziegfeld Follies.