Actor Quote by Ben Kingsley

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond…

— Anthony Hopkins

To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.

— Stephen Henderson

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to…

— Alicia Markova

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

— John Charles Polanyi

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

— Colin Callender

“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought to be…

— Alfred Jarry

Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

— Mel Giedroyc

The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that's what has kept my love for theatre intact.

— Y. G. Mahendran

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

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people…

— Charles Dickens

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

— Tim Crouch

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker