Audience Quote by Harold Prince

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people…

— Charles Dickens

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

— Agnes Moorehead

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can…

— Kenneth Cranham

I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking,…

— Paula Vogel

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

— Manoj Bajpayee

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

— Paul Feig

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet…

— Tony Kushner

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a…

— Nina Arianda

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to…

— Evelyn Waugh

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

— Simon McBurney

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long