Eartha Kitt Quotes

We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

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.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.

Seeing a full room of punters queuing for my show is always heartening.

I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated.

As long as the crowd make noise, I will be in my element, whether it is booing or cheering. The main thing is I get a reaction of some kind.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.