Actor Quote by Kenneth Haigh

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything…

— Orson Welles

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

— Christian Camargo

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

— Willem Dafoe

What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music, we give…

— Michael Chekhov

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

— F. Sionil Jose

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are…

— Hallie Flanagan

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost…

— Om Puri

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the room, you…

— Kenneth Lonergan

In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the…

— Noel Coward

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress,…

— Kevin Spacey