In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by…

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

— Tristan Bernard

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

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

— Tristan Bernard

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with…

— Peter Stormare

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

— Andy Richter

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the…

— Ma Rainey

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

“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

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

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

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

— Laurence Fishburne

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