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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. - Robe

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

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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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Its one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead

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

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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold

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…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

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