Robin Williams Quotes

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

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 love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

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're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

I'll always go back to the stage.

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

I’m really alive when I’m on stage.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

There's just something about getting up, putting it out there, and getting this exchange of energy. Whether your audience is a camera lens, or live theater, or whatever it is, just putting that out there and getting it back is just an honor.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.