I just get such a connection from an audience. You play…

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad…

— Sylvia Plath

I play mad all the time.

— Jalen Ramsey

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

— Gary Owens

Producers are too ready to second-guess an audience, and they always play it very safe.

— Adrian Lester

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

— Jerome Lawrence

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back…

— Sam Neill

With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really…

— Taika Waititi

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important…

— Laura Benanti

When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have a check…

— Aneurin Barnard

Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in…

— Angela Lansbury

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people…

— Todd Rundgren

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

— Shirley Booth

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business…

— Leonard Rose