Hard Quote by Marianne Elliott

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

I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in…

— Liev Schreiber

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of…

— Alfred Jarry

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the…

— John Malkovich

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just…

— Johnny Depp

I have never seen any of my work, I can't watch it because I am ultra critical. We all have little mannerisms that people…

— Josh Peck

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

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

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of…

— Bryan Fuller

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The…

— Bill Pullman

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work or anything,…

— Bryce Dallas Howard