Bruce Coville Quotes

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

You have to work the crowd.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

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

The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I want to entertain.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

I've always had live audiences.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.