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Theatrical Director Inspirational Quotes (3770)

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In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
Alan Rickman
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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
Alan Rickman
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
Alan Rickman
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
Alan Rickman
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
Alan Rickman
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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
Alan Rickman
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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
Alan Rickman
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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
Alan Rickman
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
Alan Rickman
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
Alan Rickman
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman
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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman
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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Alan Rickman
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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Alan Rickman
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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
Alan Rickman
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
Moliere
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I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.
Conor McPherson
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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Alan Rickman
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I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.
Simon McBurney
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
W. S. Gilbert
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
Mike Nichols
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.
Richard Jordan
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