Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

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 prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

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

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

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.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

I never want to tell a story where I'm lecturing to the audience.

You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.