Actor Quote by Beatrice Lillie

In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time…

— Twyla Tharp

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to…

— Olivia Williams

What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less…

— Roger Rees

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

— Young Jean Lee

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

— Lorraine Bracco

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is…

— Ricky Martin

I've done a lot of theater in my time, and in rehearsals, you're like, 'Well, we find it funny,' but until you get it…

— Phil Dunster

In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to…

— Mathew Baynton

It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked on acting:…

— Eileen Atkins

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can…

— Kenneth Cranham