Jane Pauley Quotes

When you can connect with a live audience and you get that immediate response it's just great.

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.

The stage is one place where you come face to face with your audience, unlike cinemas where you cannot see the applause or the booing by the audience.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.

I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy.

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

It is amazing to sing in front of a live audience. It is incredible. The energy is awesome.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.

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

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

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

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.

You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.