Kathy Griffin Quotes

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

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

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

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.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.