Actors Quote by Agnes Repplier

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

— Catherine Hicks

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role…

— Cillian Murphy

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have…

— Romola Garai

Audiences can be very judgmental.

— Clive Owen

An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a…

— Christopher Walken

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have…

— Anonymous

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

— Hattie Morahan

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the…

— Harold Prince