Henry Rollins Quotes

I talk so much on stage - too much. I always get in trouble. But it's just the best to be able to connect with people.

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.

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

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I like talking. I like acting.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

One thing I've learned from 'Strictly' is timing and the craft of the talk.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

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.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

I have fun doing movies, I’ve had fun doing the animated show, and I certainly have fun doing standup. Even that, even though it’s just me talking, it’s also interaction with the crowd.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"