An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed… — George Ogilvie Copy Share
I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform.… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I spent a month in India and where I learnt an important word for me, for everything that had come before and after, and the was the word 'seva' - the work you do without wanting reward, simply for the work itself, for the spiritual, for the practice and the experience it gives you by doing that work. I began… — George Ogilvie Copy Share
One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end. — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to… — George Ogilvie Copy Share
Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are on the… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
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