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Theatrical Director Inspirational Quotes (3770)

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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.
William Lucking
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It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?
William Lucking
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You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.
William Lucking
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Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
William Lucking
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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Sam Mendes
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God finally caught his eye.
George S. Kaufman
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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
Alan Rickman
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
Alan Rickman
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan Rickman
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman
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I love working in New York theater.
Alan Rickman
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
Alan Rickman
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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
Alan Rickman
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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
Alan Rickman
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
Alan Rickman
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Alan Rickman
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
Alan Rickman
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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
Alan Rickman
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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
Alan Rickman
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
Alan Rickman
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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
Alan Rickman
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
Alan Rickman
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