David E. Kelley Quotes

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

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

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

I love connecting with readers!

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

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

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.