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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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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