Audience Quote by Robert Shaw

You never know what's going to happen next onstage.

— Don Ho

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to…

— Mick Jagger

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

— Bo Burnham

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness…

— Norbert Leo Butz

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

— Keith Jarrett

Most of the time, it's pretending I'm somebody else to get into a different head space. A lot of times, it's just, 'Who do…

— Borns

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure…

— Sara Bareilles

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from…

— Jason Graae

“…We know in advance what’s going to be said, and so we forget to listen….”

— John Webster

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

— Keeley Hawes

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

— Margaret Cho

Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it…

— Carol Channing