"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 Quotes #Home Quotes #Play Quotes

“Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.”
“I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.”
“Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.”
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.”
“I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me.”
“Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.”
“By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.”
“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

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