Robert Brustein Quotes

When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material... The Piano Lesson. - Robert Brustein

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

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. - Robert Brustein

The people who spoke [those lines] were inhabitants of the earth, not brocaded humanoids from some far-flung planet. - Robert Brustein

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

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

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

Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained. - Robert Brustein

His last days, a noble confrontation with death, made his life as much a work of art as his plays. - Robert Brustein

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