Actors Quote by Kenneth Haigh

You need three things in the theater - 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

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

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

— Christian Camargo

My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for…

— Eugene Ionesco

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

— Naseeruddin Shah

[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

I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to have empathy.…

— Lynn Nottage

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