Joe Mantello Quotes

One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.

Joe Mantello

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1962

Topics

StandQuestionsAskDirectorGet

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

Michael Douglas

LearningPatienceEasyLesson

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Stana Katic

NameYouBadGrandmotherProtect

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

YourselfPeopleStand UpThinkStand

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.

Tracy Letts

RedPerfectGroupDirectorMeatWho

I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she's disqualified herself from Commander-in-Chief by her cavalier attitude towards our nation's secrecy laws.

Tom Cotton

AttitudeThinkYouI CanSheNation

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Roy Harper

CultureWorldBetterAmericaMy Own

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Mike Huckabee

LifeHeartEqualityPeopleThink

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

Michelle Dean

CultureManSocietyExploreOut

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

Michael O'Brien

EvilUniverseConfusedChristian

I had the time of my life playing Rose in Wes Craven's 'The Girl in the Photographs.' I became so close with the cast and crew, it was hard to leave after we wrapped.

Miranda Rae Mayo

LifeGirlTimeRoseMy LifeHard

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

Donna Brazile

GovernmentPeopleCivilityWillTalk

Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'

Dee Rees

MirrorSayWantNothingUpHold

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Joe Mantello