Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
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.
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.
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.
That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
