Men and women Quote by Elliott Kay

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There…

— Bob Newhart

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

— Sam Shepard

“Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit,…

— Paulo Coelho

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual…

— Marcus Sakey

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what…

— Stephen A. Reger

“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.”

— Douglas Adams

“We fought to hide our fear, to maintain our positions as predators rather than victims. In reality, we were all victims.”

— Dwight E. Abbott