Actors Quote by Linda Lavin

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I…

— Jeff Britting

“It is a masterpiece,' said Jules Fougler. 'I hope you will prove yourself worthy of it, Peter. It is the kind of play that…

— Ayn Rand

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

It's a piece that is so interactive, and relies so much on these five men in the room, that I think will appeal to…

— Sean Mahon

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . .…

— George Bernard Shaw