Lauren Bowles Quotes

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

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

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

It is amazing to sing in front of a live audience. It is incredible. The energy is awesome.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

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.

I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day and said, "I'm going to sit here in a ball and rock back and forth. And won't you join me for a half hour of sadness."

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

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 the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.