Rebecca Solnit Quotes

When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

I go and see music all the time.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

It is a knowledgeable crowd at Old Trafford and they will also tell you when you are not bowling well.

I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea.

One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It's just really fun for me.

Art isn't complete until it's shared.

I'm here to put on a show.

When I first fought in the U.S., the size of the crowd was something I was not used to seeing, but you get used to it.

I am the clotheshorse out on the course and the better I play the more people watch me out on the course and the more the clothes get exposure in front of the TV cameras.

It was a pleasure to play in Houston.