I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and soul music. My college girlfriend introduced me to musicals. She listened to them, so that was the first time I heard ‘Dream Girls.’ Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I’ve always been drawn more to film. But ‘Bloodline,’ to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I’ve been swimming recreationally about five times a week for years just at the Y. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
Most of my work in New York has been on new musicals. And all through the preview process, they throw you new songs, new lyrics, new choreography, new scripts; you’re constantly getting new material. You might get it in the morning and put it in the show at night. It happens every single day, so those muscles are pretty toned. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we’re all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You’re playing different roles all the time, and I love that. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I’ve sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there – little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
Sometimes, you don’t know what’s going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you get a great big surprise at the very last minute, which is scary sometimes. You don’t have a whole lot of time to prepare. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
