Audience Quote by Keith Johnstone

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

— Al Pacino

Theater is hard.

— Paul Dano

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Paul Feig

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

— Harvey Fierstein

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

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to…

— Shane Carruth

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s.…

— Chubby Checker

I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for…

— Martin McDonagh

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style…

— Michael Ritchie

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the…

— Harold Prince

I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time…

— Lindsay Mendez