Audience Quote by Neil Patrick Harris

In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

— Francesca Annis

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

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost…

— Om Puri

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell…

— Lucien Bourjeily

Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward…

— Uzo Aduba

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

— Anonymous

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

— Shirley Booth

Technology is improving to prevent musicians from losing their hearing while performing on stage... audience members losing their hearing from listening to loud music...…

— Mandy Harvey

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal…

— Hildegard Knef

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes.…

— Haylie Duff