During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'
WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
