Audience Quote by Laura Benanti

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

— Amanda Schull

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

— Megan Hilty

It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like…

— Jenna Elfman

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

— Samuel Barnett

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum.…

— Rick Moranis

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of…

— William Jackson Harper

I always loved playing in front of big audiences; now I'm jittery if one person is in the room watching me.

— Stephen Hendry

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to…

— Jason Alexander

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

— Felicity Jones

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

— John Lloyd Young

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the…

— David Walton