Audience Quote by Misty Copeland

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially…

— Archie Shepp

It’s like flight, you’re flying… When you’re hitting something that’s turning you on, you get goose bumps. It’s a rush. It’s very exciting and…

— Yanni

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that…

— Cate Blanchett

You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

— Don Rickles

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter…

— Jodi Picoult

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with…

— Vera Wang

“As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima…

— Peggy Toney Horton

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments…

— Barry Levinson

The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this…

— Dean Potter

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets…

— Andrew Dice Clay

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just…

— Aidy Bryant

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say…

— Steven Wright