Vernon Lee Quotes

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

I never thought about the gayness. Liberace just looked like he was having so much fun. And that whole idea of talking directly to the audience, you just went along with him. He made you happy. And he's finally getting acknowledged for all the Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna theatrics now that people are looking at his old costumes.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

It's fun because I really do love meeting new people. Comedy can be so different from show to show and from writer to writer and actor to actor. People don't set out to make a bad show.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I think people come to see you run fast, but they also come to see a show, a performance. They want to see a personality, and that's what I give them.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.