Action Quote by Elia Kazan

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

— Franklyn Ajaye

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

— Katherine Moennig

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

— Matthew Lewis

I think it's important for me to do both stage and screen and if I get the opportunity that's great.

— Tara Fitzgerald

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about…

— Renee O'Connor

You are working on bringing life to a character whether it's on screen or on stage; only the technicalities are different.

— Kunal Kapoor

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they…

— Marcus du Sautoy

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and…

— Tracy Letts

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to act with…

— Poonam Dhillon

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

— Raza Jaffrey

Your stage presence is as good as your screen presence.

— Dhanush