Audience Quote by Fiona Shaw

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the…

— Gabriel Byrne

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

— Adrianne Palicki

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

— Raphael Saadiq

The theater is magical and addictive.

— Angela Lansbury

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why…

— Ricky Martin

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which…

— Amy Landecker

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

— Angad Bedi

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake…

— Laurence Olivier

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

— Rajiv Menon