The primary function of a theater is not to please itself…

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

You shouldn't fear your audience, you should serve your audience, serve them the truth.

— Brian Stelter

Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it,…

— Montserrat Caballe

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

— Troy Carter

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

— Jerry Hall

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's…

— Joan Fontaine

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the…

— Christopher Walken

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

— Laurence Fishburne

“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater,…

— Ronald Reagan

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved…

— George Stevens

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as…

— Sean Penn

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing…

— Jon Glaser

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to…

— Ed Murray

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment…

— Viola Spolin