Logo
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

Other quotes by Robert Brustein
Other Quotes from
Theater
category

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Theater

…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

Category:
Theater

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Theater

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. – Robert Brustein

Category:
Theater

Random Quotes

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, – Charlotte Barnard

Category:
Past, the

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherines beauty and Renees frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. – Colleen Atwood

Category:
Beauty

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh [written in the context of aging —t&#9

Category:
Autumn

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch

Category:
War