Jodi Picoult Quotes

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you.

I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.

Every time I come out, there's more and more people paying attention, so I gotta show out every time.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

I think my goal has always been to remain entertaining. Above all else, remain entertaining.

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

When I put on my consumer hat, and I'm buying tickets to be entertained, I'm not interested in seeing, like, 'Don Quixote.' Unless someone really spectacular is dancing.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

When I went to WWE, the level of work I put out every night was just balls to the wall.

I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

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

Everytime there's an NXT show, people are like, 'Oh, that's the greatest thing I've ever seen.' It's the greatest show on Earth. One of things that they have going for them is the fact they make you wait. They build to it properly. That's a good way to go at this.

We like to play to a lot of people - that's what it's all about.