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

  • -- Robert Brustein 罗伯特·布鲁斯汀

剧院的主要功能不是取悦自己,甚至不是取悦观众。是为人才服务。

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I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

我喜欢经常与观众和一群有趣的人在一起。这就是我从小到大的经历——每周做电视节目。

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

如果你愿意,我曾经是一个成功的学生,因为我在所有能让你在学校取得成功的必要条件上都有一定的天赋。

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

我不反对孩子们读他们喜欢的任何书,但是我确实对女孩读粉色的书和男孩读黑色的书有意见。

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

当我对着麦克风窃窃私语我所有最黑暗的秘密时,我喜欢感受到观众眼睛的灼烧感。

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

在旧书中交谈的人,在新书中很难讨人喜欢。

The talent is in the choices.

天赋就在选择之中。