Roger Allam Quotes

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.

I love live TV, and there's no replacing or faking.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

There is something about live albums that I enjoy so much more than studio albums from all of my favorite artists. When I am listening to them live, I get to connect so much more to their truth than in studio albums.

It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

Very rarely I create things and feel like I don't want to recreate them in a live setting. It's a completely different world, but at the same time that's where I've always come from. Enjoying that give-and-take from a live audience, there's a large part of me that's looking forward to it, and creating that relationship again.

I don't know why ESPN asked me to host the ESPYs. I think that they realize we, over at WWE, can engage a live audience. We certainly have an enormous following.

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.

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 you're in WWE and you're in front of 16,000 screaming fans booing you or cheering you, you only have one take.

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.

What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.