Lee Mack Quotes

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I've never been onstage in my life.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

The Guthrie Theater is a beast. It has 1,300 seats, and I couldn't act there. I always felt I was acting too small. I'd always have to fight to get the gumption to act bigger. There's a weird trick to it. You don't want to overwhelm the first six rows. You don't want to starve the back. I could never get it.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.