Heard Quote by John Green

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

— Chita Rivera

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

— Aaron Pedersen

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is…

— Jack Lemmon

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the…

— Paula Vogel

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

— Harry M Warner

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a…

— Clint Eastwood

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that…

— Cedric Hardwicke

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I was disappointed…

— Rachel House

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili…

— Toby Stephens

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth