Actors Quote by Hilary Mantel

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can…

— Betty White

When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have a check…

— Aneurin Barnard

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a…

— Everett McGill

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is…

— Ricky Martin

On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you…

— Annaleigh Ashford

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an…

— Diego Luna

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

— Michael Schenker

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding…

— Sean Patrick Thomas

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The…

— Alicia Keys

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened…

— Luke Kirby

Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when…

— Idina Menzel