I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.
That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.
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.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
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.
I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.
The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
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.
Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
As long as the actor is able to maintain an emotional relatability with the audience, he or she will be loved by them.
Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
