Audience Quote by Walter Savage Landor

How every fool can play upon the word!

— William Shakespeare

It is delightful to play the fool.

— Horace

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

— Howard Barker

Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It's almost like…

— Annaleigh Ashford

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for…

— Gloria Swanson

Any fool can hide, few can play.

— Pete Townshend

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

— African Proverb

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was…

— Ruthie Henshall

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

— Bryce Dessner

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play…

— Arthur Miller

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

— Cameron Mackintosh