Cate Blanchett Quotes

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

There's nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there's nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.

Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an audience would react to it. I realized at age 7 that I wanted to be a performer, and I used to do that, and occasionally I'll get an acting job. I don't really make much of a living as an actor, but it's fun to do it when I get a job.

I love being onstage, I love the relationship with the audience.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

The way I do that is to keep coming up with good songs and when I do a concert, I make sure I give a good performance. It's not rocket science.

I would like to perform at the Nassau Coliseum; that's the goal.

I'm in a band, I sing live.

My most memorable moment was performing at our first concert, Twiceland: The Opening.

I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show.

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.

There's something very refreshing about being on stage.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.