Ira Sachs Quotes

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

Ira Sachs

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New YorkPeopleMeRoadSeeingGay

Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

Joe Mantello

HopeBelievePotentialQuestionsAsk

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Joe Mantegna

LifeWrongWantPublicRacket

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

Joe Pantoliano

RedMeYouNeverLeatherSee

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

Jermaine Fowler

LoveComedyMoreMessageStakes

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

Max Joseph

TruthPeopleTruth IsComplicated

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Amos Bronson Alcott

ConversationDebateMasculine

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Solomon Burke

TogetherSoulMeSituationManager

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Roddy Doyle

FailureWritingJustAllowPartAny

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

HistoryChurchGoRomeCultsWhich

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WillExposureContemptConstantThem

I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

AppreciationThinkJustEvenKnew

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

Sutton Foster

WorldLongKnowInsideOutPace

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