Jason Robert Brown Quotes
What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.
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What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
