American - Actor | January 30, 1967 -
I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'
Norbert Leo Butz
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Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.
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It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.
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I make decisions quickly.
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If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
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If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
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I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.
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I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.
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I have 10 brothers and sisters.
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I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.
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I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman; I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael Gambon. Simon Russell Beale.
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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