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Trevor Nunn has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
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I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what…
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…
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Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then.
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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't…
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I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded…
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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.
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If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold…
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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
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Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
— Liv Ullmann
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If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike…
— Susannah York
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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…
— Annie Dillard
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I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and…
— Alex Kingston
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I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
— Harvey Korman
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Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen…
— George Steiner
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
— Mandy Patinkin
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You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and…
— Philip Larkin
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She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have…
— David Mamet
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I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of…
— John Logan
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I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look…
— Diane Ladd
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