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

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

— Robert Brustein

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

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

— Brian Stelter

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in…

— Rebecca West

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes…

— LaChanze

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate…

— Mani Ratnam

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one…

— Tom Conti

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience…

— Sarita Choudhury

With a theatre audience, the suspension of disbelief is much, much greater than on television. With television, people feel much more like they're a…

— Adrian Lester

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to…

— Greta Scacchi

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

— Bill Veeck

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned set of…

— Tamlyn Tomita

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the…

— Andy Goldsworthy