Across Quote by John Hurt

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

— Anthony Quinn

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

— Anonymous

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

— Christopher Reeve

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try…

— Matthew Bourne

“Presenting is not simply about aesthetics or making things pretty; it’s about creating meaning. It’s about being present. I need to ensure that every…

— Rick Justice

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.

— Thomas Quasthoff

I'm so keen to convey what I'm thinking and feeling, as opposed to letting the audience come to me.

— Paterson Joseph

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can…

— Nate Silver

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about…

— Alan Rickman

There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.

— Frank Vincent

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang