When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.
Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.
Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
From an acting standpoint, you've got to continue to trust your gut because, ultimately, only that will result in a better product, making the audience more happy and resulting in the right payoff.
I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.
Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.
I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
