A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, "You must love the instant feedback," and we're all attention whores for sure - that's why we choose this profession. But it goes beyond that: There's something magical about a shared experience in a theater, with actors and an audience. I don't know if the audience members realize just how huge a part they play in a production. How they are determines how we are, and when it all works, it's magical.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
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Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
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We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
quote by Michael Bay
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The Art Of Life
If anyone believes,
The one standing alone...
Taking the heat under spotlight,
Runs the show...
Hasn't met the director or the producer,
The manager, assistant manager.
The script writer, agent, publicist...
And a host of others behind the scenes.
If anyone believes,
The one standing alone...
Taking the heat under spotlight,
Runs the show...
Doesn't know theater.
Or who calls the shots,
To enable any light to shine
And be spotted anywhere.
Theater is staged.
No matter whose name is on the marquee,
To sell the tickets.
Theater is staged.
And the best acts are trained to fill the seats.
If one knew theater,
One would know the art of life.
And the importance of having not only a good director...
But one with the bucks,
Who can keep the production afloat long enough to seduce...
Is the key to selling an audience sold on what they see,
Until the curtain drops to signal the end of the performance.
Taken from its natural habitat to be staged,
The art of life...
Is only theater to delude and to captivate believers.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
quote by Quentin Tarantino
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
quote by Tallulah Bankhead
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Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
quote by Patti LuPone
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
quote by Trevor Nunn
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
quote by Robert Brustein
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
quote by Jerry Herman
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I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
quote by Sanaa Lathan
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We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
quote by Jillian Bach
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
quote by Richard Wilson
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
quote by Estelle Parsons
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
quote by Richard Foreman
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
quote by Jerry Hall
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Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.
quote by John Madden
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