I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
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.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.
