Aura Quote by Richard Greenberg

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being…

— Edward Albee

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

— Paresh Rawal

There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and…

— Jimmy Barnes

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to…

— Greta Scacchi

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened…

— Luke Kirby

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

— David Henry Hwang

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what…

— Daniel Dae Kim

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate…

— Carla Gugino

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first…

— Rich Sommer

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's…

— Wallace Shawn