About Quote by Michael O'Keefe

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

— David Mamet

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

— Zach Braff

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the…

— Edward Albee

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

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

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience…

— Jules Feiffer

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

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

— Christopher Walken