Demetri Martin Quotes

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

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

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

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.

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!

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I know that out of the thousands of people who show up, maybe nine of them will actually understand what's going on stage, music-wise. But no one should be sitting down in my concert.

Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that moment.

A live show is something that can never ever be duplicated on a computer.

No matter what town we went to, if there was a comedian playing, I'd go watch.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that you be founded in theater so that you understand what an audience is, what kind of an animal it is and how to play with it. How to have fun with it, how to sympathize with it, all the things that an audience is. I don't think you're going to find that out unless you do theater.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

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

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.