Acting Quote by Iris Murdoch

“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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

— Anonymous

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety,…

— Arthur Miller

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

— Eleanor Catton

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

— Naseeruddin Shah

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms…

— Girish Karnad

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the…

— Cat Stevens

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

“When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who…

— Melissa Bruder