Prunella Scales Quotes

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

Audiences have taught me how to sing better and entertain better.

I've always said the same thing - I'm learning, I'm getting better and I'm loving playing in front of sell-out crowds.

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

You always learn, especially in failure.

You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.

The only place to get better is to work in front of a crowd every night, that's when you'll find what really works and what doesn't.