Audience Quote by Demetri Martin

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

As a performer, you want your audience to have as much fun as you are having on stage.

— Neha Kakkar

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't…

— Kim Gordon

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

— Hugo Weaving

Most of what I like doing in performing is connecting with an audience. What's the point of doing standup if you're not doing that?

— Rose Matafeo

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died…

— Tig Notaro

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have…

— Julianne Nicholson

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different…

— John Barrowman

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that…

— Shreya Ghoshal

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or…

— Saffron Burrows

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.…

— Matt Nathanson

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the…

— Rita Rudner