Norbert Leo Butz Quotes
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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.
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Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.
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I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
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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.
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If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
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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.
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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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?'
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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.
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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.