Robert Brustein Quotes

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

Robert Brustein

#2. Lord Biddenden's instincts were patriarchal. He liked to see his brothers and sisters under his roof, and to feel that they depended upon him for guidance; and he was almost as anxious for their advancement as his own.

Georgette Heyer

#3. Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Myrtle Reed

#4. My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

Erik Estrada

#5. Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

Robert Brustein

#6. 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

#7. Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

R.A. Torrey

#8. If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

James Franco

#9. Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

#10. The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Robert Brustein

#11. There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

Ari Fleischer

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

Robert Brustein

#13. If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#14. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

John Ashcroft

#18. Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Francis Parkman

#19. When am I going to see you?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Very much."
"Never," I said, and hung up with a resolute click.

Sylvia Plath

#20. The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

Robert Brustein