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Quote by Robert Brustein
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. – Bertolt Brecht

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Sarah Bernhardt

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I just love, I love, I love movies. – Laura Dern

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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. – Harold Clurman

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