William Hazlitt Quotes

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

'The Painkiller' is a remarkable play.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.

'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.

The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.