Actor Quote by Sir Arthur Sullivan

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

— Jennifer Damiano

It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up…

— Ben Brantley

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the…

— Himani Shivpuri

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every…

— Howard Jacobson

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short, and fame…

— Agnes Moorehead

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came…

— Tennessee Williams

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell…

— John Tiffany