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Theatrical Director Inspirational Quotes (3770)

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I can be bought, but not bored.
Alfred Lunt
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I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?
Alfred Lunt
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I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
Alfred Lunt
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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
Peter Greenaway
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
Brian Friel
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I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Harvey Fierstein
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I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
Dexter Fletcher
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes
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It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Richard Wagner
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
Bertolt Brecht
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I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
Silvio Berlusconi
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The power of art is the power of truth.
Julian Beck
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I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
Dirk Benedict
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It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
Alexander Ostrovsky
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To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.
Alexander Ostrovsky
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Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order to. To create, in other words, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals as such.
George Ogilvie
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Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.
Alex Timbers
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I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, Well, don't change it too much, you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.
Alex Timbers
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I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.
Alex Timbers
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I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.
Alex Timbers
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I like musicals that look more like plays.
Alex Timbers
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We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
Peter Greenaway
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I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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