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Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of…

— Steve Coogan

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

— Jesse Eisenberg

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be…

— Roger Allam

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction…

— Tom Noonan

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

— Lorraine Bracco

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

— Stephen Lang

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to…

— Beatrice Lillie

There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.

— Gemma Whelan

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a…

— Mary Pickford

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

— Al Yankovic

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the…

— Adam Rapp