Court Quote by Ned Beauman

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

— Cate Blanchett

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you…

— John Lithgow

I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on…

— Gavin Friday

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

— Joan Didion

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can…

— Irvine Welsh

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

— Marcia Clark

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

— Kiku Sharda

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

— Peter Weir

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

— Phyllida Lloyd

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and…

— Woody Harrelson

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo