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The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved. -- Robertson Davies
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive. -- Gene Wolfe
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years. -- Rupert Holmes
I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience. -- Berlie Doherty
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. -- D. H. Lawrence
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better. -- Christine Jones
Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself. -- Kenneth Branagh
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. -- Brendan Coyle
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. -- Lee Daniels
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. -- Shirley Booth
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. -- Nicholas Lea
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. -- Lusia Strus
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. -- Christopher Walken
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor. -- Fiona Shaw
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. -- Trevor Nunn
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. -- Tony Kushner
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. -- Christopher Walken
I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors. -- Danielle Brooks
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.' -- Megan Hilty
I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience. -- Zach Braff
I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one. -- Julia Stiles
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that. -- Maggie Smith
I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France. -- Francois Cluzet
I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors. -- Sara Gilbert
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with. -- James Gray
One thing I think is really important is chemistry, and if actors have chemistry, audiences will pick up on that. Audiences will root for characters that don't even exist as a couple because the actors' chemistry is so strong. -- Sarah Brown
I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work. -- Peter Riegert
My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. -- Edith Head
We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star. -- Jose Ferrer
Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe. -- Hiro Murai
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time. -- Niels Bohr
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. -- Francesca Annis
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. -- Leo Rosten
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. -- Richard Foreman
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. -- Frank Capra
Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors. -- Sonny Chiba
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. -- Julian Fellowes
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. -- Kenneth Haigh
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film. -- Julianne Moore
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise. -- Ethan Coen
The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience. -- Richard Ayoade
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. -- John Charles Polanyi
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at. -- Henry Cavill
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. -- Christian Bale
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing. -- Edward Herrmann
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room. -- Tim Crouch
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being. -- Elizabeth Strout
Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment--to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience's soul -- David Ackert
When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. -- Cedric Hardwicke
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. -- Cedric Hardwicke
If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience. -- Enrico Colantoni
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do? -- Merrie Spaeth
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. -- Jane Elliot
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. -- Jane Elliot
It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them. -- Romola Garai
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors. -- Kajol

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