"The primary function of a theater is not……" — Robert Brustein
"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
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10 Quotes by Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein has 10 quotes on this site.
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Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is…
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Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
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The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to…
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The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is…
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On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his…
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No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception…
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Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
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Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
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Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
— Aaliyah
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
— Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
— Erykah Badu
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
— Antonio Banderas
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
— Tyra Banks
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