Audience Quote by Tom Stoppard

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

— Shirley Booth

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it…

— John Guare

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

— Marian Seldes

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

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

It's honestly all about the audience and if they're having a good time.

— Tony Kanal

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

— Sarah Lancashire

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience…

— Jules Feiffer

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

— Judd Hirsch