Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

Cameron Mackintosh

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

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• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

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• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

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• To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

  

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

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• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

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• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

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• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  

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• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

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• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

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• If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

  

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• I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.

  

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• A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

  

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• I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

  

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics