Actor Quote by Edward Albee

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

— John McLaughlin

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

— George C. Wolfe

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond…

— Anthony Hopkins

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it…

— Emma Goldman

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

— Tucker Max

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live.…

— Stephen Sondheim

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is…

— Twyla Tharp

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

— Stella McCartney

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing.…

— Yoko Ono

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what…

— Diane Paulus