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The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

— Phyllis Diller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

— Cab Calloway

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

— Skylar Grey

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

— Aaliyah

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

— Johnny Marr

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

— Emma Stone

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

— Michael Carbonaro

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

— John Travolta

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

— Marcello Giordani

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

— Leslie Hope

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

— Al Pacino