Emotional Quote by Colin Callender

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

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie…

— Jules Feiffer

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically…

— Don DeLillo

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the…

— Orson Welles

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art…

— Anatole Broyard

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce…

— Nigel Hawthorne

A play visibly represents pure existing.

— Thornton Wilder

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello