Chris de Burgh Quotes

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

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

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

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 know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

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

I really love live performing!

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

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

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.