In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by…

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

— Tristan Bernard

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

— Tristan Bernard

“The only things that I expect, are miracles.”

— Greg Dutilly

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

— Leo Kottke

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

— Bernie Mac

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

— Robert Brustein

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

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

... 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