You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you’re often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day. Bill Irwin Read Quote
What I love is the comedy of the body. It’s a little highfalutin’, but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn’t brought to them via the spoken word. It’s from a different place; it’s a different quality of laughter. Bill Irwin Read Quote
I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too. Bill Irwin Read Quote
This play is truly a great invention, and we’re having a great time doing it eight times a week. Bill Irwin Read Quote
People keep telling us, that they didn’t know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they’ve had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play. Bill Irwin Read Quote
Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times. Bill Irwin Read Quote
The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that’s great. We couldn’t be happier. Bill Irwin Read Quote
I used to watch the ‘Jackie Gleason Show’ and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the ’20s. Bill Irwin Read Quote
We used to have a photo of me in full clown makeup taken when my son was 5. And when he was 17 or 18, he said, ‘Yeah, that thing used to scare me. I hated that photo.’ So it is scary; clowning is scary to people. Bill Irwin Read Quote
