Audience Quote by Gretchen Mol

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

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

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching…

— Jonathan Groff

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience…

— Jules Feiffer

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

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

— Ben Whishaw

I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of…

— John Maus

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain…

— Zeena Schreck

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

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

When I was a kid, it was the attention I got from it, the immediate response from the audience, the thrill of being onstage.…

— Tatiana Maslany

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find…

— Lynn Nottage