Audience Quote by Shirley Booth

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

— Marian Seldes

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a…

— Tom Stoppard

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are…

— Tom Stoppard

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

— Laura Linney

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

— Keith Johnstone

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

— Judd Hirsch

I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of…

— John Maus

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love…

— Clotilde Hesme

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