Norbert Leo Butz Quotes
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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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.
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The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
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Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
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I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
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When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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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.
