Tim Crouch Quotes

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I do my best creating on stage.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.