Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I like talking. I like acting.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

You have to work the crowd.

We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

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.

I like talking.

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

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

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.

I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that you be founded in theater so that you understand what an audience is, what kind of an animal it is and how to play with it. How to have fun with it, how to sympathize with it, all the things that an audience is. I don't think you're going to find that out unless you do theater.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.