Robert Brustein Quotes

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

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.

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

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