Searching for an Image: No matter how popular his plays may be, Lai still seems to hint with a sigh that real appreciation is hard to come by, saying things like "it's pitiful how few reviews we get," or "it's weird, but I think foreigners actually understand us better."
找尋自我形象儘管作品廣受觀眾歡迎，賴聲川卻仍隱隱表現出知音難尋的感慨，諸如他說：「得到的劇評總是少的可憐」，或「奇怪，我覺得外國人反而比較瞭解我們」等話語。