Actor Quote by David Mamet

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.

— Abi Morgan

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation…

— Arthur Adamov

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

— Dirk Benedict

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney

The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In…

— Gary Busey

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

— Katherine Moennig

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety,…

— Arthur Miller

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

— Anonymous

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

— Matthew Lewis

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender