Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Definitely, people laugh a lot on the set. The actor always feels bad about laughing during a take. But I love it. It means you are having a good time and you are enjoying yourself. There is nothing wrong with laughter.
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them.
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.