Pippa Evans Quotes

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

Having an audience in the studio makes you perform rather than just act.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot and struggle with the mic stand in a ridiculous way.

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.