Seal Quotes

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

For me, I feel most at home when I'm playing live.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Performing my show is something I constantly think about.

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.