I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.
For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.
To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.
It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.