Quotes About Audience

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular, even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater, and when I first went into movies, I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

The more comfortable I got onstage, the more comfortable I got expressing myself in a physical manner. And it almost shocked people - 'Oh, is there something happening?'

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.