Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

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

• Process
• Scripts
• Musicals

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

Norbert Leo Butz

• Roles
• Theater
• Repertory

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

Norbert Leo Butz

• Responsibility
• Audience
• Individualizes

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

• Play
• Mean
• Do It

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

• Moment
• Onstage
• Submit

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

• Play
• Ideas
• Sell

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

• Work
• Actor
• Jealousy

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

Norbert Leo Butz

• Way
• Songs
• Telling

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

Norbert Leo Butz

• Water
• Effect
• Calming

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

• Roles
• Films
• Theater