Air Quote by Jay Sankey

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

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been…

— James Taylor

When you've got an audience, there's a silence in there that you don't find anywhere else. And it's really powerful. People are there listening…

— Douglas Henshall

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact,…

— Suzanne Falter-Barns

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

— Greg Sestero

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

— Michael Sheen

If you're in front of an audience and your voice, your mannerism, your pattern of speech, your intellectual approach to the performance tells the…

— Adrian Lester

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.

— Thomas Quasthoff

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

— Louis C. K

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

— Cate Blanchett

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer…

— Alice Cooper