Five Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really…

— Francesca Annis

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

— Anonymous

A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

— Mark Rylance

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums;…

— Emma Donoghue

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't…

— John Madden

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

— Agnes Varda

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

— Darren Aronofsky

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

— Jeff Daniels

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or…

— Alfre Woodard

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

— Manoj Bajpayee

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time…

— Sebastian Stan