Audience Quote by Maggie Smith

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

— Julian Fellowes

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

— Rajiv Menon

The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink…

— John de Lancie

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had…

— Robbie Kay

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really involved in…

— Regina King

You can see how actor connects with the audience. That is very much like a politician when youre talking and the audience are with…

— Ken Livingstone

An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking…

— Clemence Poesy

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

— Joel Gretsch

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close,…

— Joe Morton

The audience connects with certain characters and the actors portraying them.

— Sargun Mehta