People Quote by Moss Hart

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

— Gary Cole

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

— Theodore Bikel

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

— Katherine Moennig

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

— Justin Hayward

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

— Guy Pearce

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first…

— Anonymous

Since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to…

— John Green

I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands…

— Elizabeth Taylor

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

— Chris Rock

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to…

— Gus Van Sant

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct…

— Leslie Caron

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less…

— Domenico Gnoli