Aldous Harding Quotes

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

I can tell the crowd appreciates the way I play.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag.

I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

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

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.