Angus Young Quotes

I'm always going to need to play in front of people.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.

I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

When I'm performing for 4,000, 5,000 people, it's a show. It's a rock n' roll concert.

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.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me.

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.