Aside Quote by Dixie Carter

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

— Charlie Cox

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

— Albert Brooks

You cannot stage plays to make money. That's quite impossible until our people start spending more on tickets.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you…

— Stella Adler

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first…

— Rich Sommer

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

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

Generally in the theatre, you spend some portion of the performance convincing people they have done the right thing in buying the ticket, that…

— Jamie Parker

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

— Laura Linney

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

For my money, acting has been over-intellectualized. It's only playing.

— Denis Lawson

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

— Phil Daniels