Audience Quote by David Mamet

Theatre has taught me a lot, and I am sure there will be a lot to learn.

— Nana Patekar

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid,…

— Larry Moss

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with…

— David Ives

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an…

— Deborah Ann Woll

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in…

— Oscar Wilde

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

— Michael Ball

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I…

— Howard Barker

The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are…

— Frederick Lenz

When you give a lecture you have to really command the audience and you have to keep everyone entertained.

— Florence And The Machine

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's…

— Joan Fontaine