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There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience.

— Gilbert Gottfried

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

— Jason McCoy

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

— Kajal Aggarwal

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

— Kim Gordon

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

— Aurora

All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

— Patton Oswalt

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

— T. J. Miller

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

— Emanuel Ax

Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

— Howie Mandel

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

— Matthew Bourne

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

— Matisyahu