Alice Cooper Quotes

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

I like to do something that gets a real reaction from people.

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

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

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.

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

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

There's nothing like being in front of a live audience and getting that vibe from them, and I love people to join in the singing, and I love people to clap their hands.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.