Stage Connection Quotes

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

I love being on stage and connecting with 2000 people, but you don't really see me that often at the Logies and all that red carpet stuff. I'd rather just have dinner with my wife and kids.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.

I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.