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Theatrical Director Inspirational Quotes (3770)

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Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
Tyrone Guthrie
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
John Malkovich
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We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
Ian Mckellen
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[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.
Michael Haneke
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
Bertolt Brecht
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A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
Anne Bogart
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You cannot hide your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
Anne Bogart
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The object is freedom.
Anne Bogart
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It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
Anne Bogart
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I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way it's speculative.
Howard Barker
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Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.
Anna D. Shapiro
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While there is tea, there is hope.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
John Gielgud
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If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.
Joan Littlewood
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I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.
John Malkovich
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
Ethan Hawke
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
David Mamet
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With Hellboy I am doing a comic-book movie. That's what's so great about being an actor: You get to do Meet Joe Black, and you get to do Arrested Development, and then you get to do Hellboy and Eloise, and The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie. It's great. You get to play the field.
Jeffrey Tambor
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I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
Kathleen Turner
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I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.
James Frain
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Dennis Potter
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You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
Anne Bogart
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
Harold Clurman
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