As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
To be invited to the Park – the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world – is a great honor, and I don’t take it lightly. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there’s incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget – so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn’t work this time, you can try again on the next production. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
It’s the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they’ve made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened ‘Julius Caesar.’ I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was certainly cheaper than Botox. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline. Phyllida Lloyd Read Quote
