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. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
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. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
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. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
I have never been too concerned about things you’re supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there’s something underneath all that. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
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. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
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. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn’t read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues. Norbert Leo Butz Read Quote
