Noel Coward Quotes

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

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