Betty White Quotes

There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

'Full House' was the first time I had ever been in front of a live audience. I said a line I had rehearsed with my mom, and they laughed. It was wild. To have that energy of the live audience was like, Whaaat? Feeding off that live audience was, to a 4 or 5 year old, a high.

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

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.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with the audience.

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

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

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.