Brandon Uranowitz Quotes

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.