Robert Brustein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
-- Robert Brustein

#Theater #Solitary
Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.
-- Robert Brustein

#Art #Leader #Vision
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
-- Robert Brustein

#Theatre #Talent #Function
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.
-- Robert Brustein

#New York #Home #Play
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.
-- Robert Brustein

#Eye #Circles #Ideas
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
-- Robert Brustein

#Perception #Ongoing #Enlightened
The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.
-- Robert Brustein

#Names #Speak #Homosexuality
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
-- Robert Brustein

#Hero #Eye #Our Generation

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
I want to do #â€Ž stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live #â€Ž theater , blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...

Robert Brustein famous quotes

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