Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. ‘My Humps?’ C’mon!

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience’s face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I need space between me and the audience – and the more space the better.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the...

I’d love to go back and do theater. There’s nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you’re just breaking in and that’s working, and that’s – you’re one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience...

Kitabu cha ‘Kolonia Santita’ ni kitabu cha wasomi na wasiokuwa wasomi, watu wa mijini na watu wa vijijini, watu wazima, vijana na watoto. Hadhira ya kitabu hiki ni jamii nzima ya Tanzania.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

We’re neither happy nor worried about it. The replacement program is doing what it’s supposed to and drawing an audience.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

I sang ‘American Pie’ a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It’s a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the ’60s – well, I was frankly surprised by the show’s success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

Assuming Sandberg’s advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career...