Robert Brustein Quotes

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

The artist is called a creator.

I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.