Quotes About Connection

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what, a half second ahead of the audience? There's very little lag time. I think of a thing, I say it, then the audience is laughing and it all happened in a second.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I really like performing for people.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

I love performing in Delhi. It's the heart of the country.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.