Accord Quote by Thornton Wilder

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

— Anonymous

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

— Robert Ludlum

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

— David Corbett

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

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

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

— Christopher Walken

“We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of…

— Kakuzō Okakura