Ariana Grande Quotes

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've missed.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

I play shows sometimes, and if everything's connecting, I start blabbing to the audience about anything. Between songs, talking about things in my personal life, or whatever. But there are other situations where I feel a little closed-off. It's really kind of a day-to-day thing.

That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions. You hear people snoring in the audience, and bored to tears, or sometimes you hear the laughter, and you can hear them listening.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.