Audience Quote by Simon McBurney

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think…

— Elliot Cowan

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

— Tim Crouch

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

— Al Pacino

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

— Clive Rowe

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

— Phillipa Soo

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play…

— Sylvester McCoy

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at…

— John Guare

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends…

— Pierce Brosnan