Audience Quote by Marian Seldes

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

— Shirley Booth

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

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

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared…

— Lee Hall

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a…

— Tom Stoppard

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love…

— Clotilde Hesme

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

— Albert Brooks

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

— Sophie Okonedo

The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the…

— Gretchen Mol

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

— Anonymous

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

— Hornswoggle