Audience Quote by Laurence Fishburne

I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash onstage, and…

— Anika Noni Rose

Movies, you can insulate yourself more from audience, to a degree, and just look at box office. In theater, the audience is a very…

— Alan Menken

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

I've had shows where you think, "Is this going well? I can't tell," and then you say goodnight and you get this ovation. They're…

— Todd Barry

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's…

— Joan Fontaine

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the…

— Christopher Walken

“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater,…

— Ronald Reagan

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved…

— George Stevens

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing…

— Jon Glaser

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to…

— Ed Murray

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

— Jerry Hall