Theatre Quote by David Schwimmer

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

— Zach Braff

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

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

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching…

— Jonathan Groff

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding…

— Sean Patrick Thomas

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

— Christopher Walken

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much…

— Dylan O'Brien

A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then.…

— Larry Moss

One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when…

— Nilo Cruz

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience…

— Jules Feiffer

I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be…

— Tracy Letts