Roman Reigns Quotes

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

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.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.

Getting onstage and trying out all of my material and what works well with audiences and what doesn't, what works well in different atmospheres, has been the best training.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.