"It is very difficult to be a hero……" — Sebastian Barry
"It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life."
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Sebastian Barry
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24 Quotes by Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry has 24 quotes on this site.
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it…
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A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner…
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The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets.…
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush,…
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I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your…
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Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced…
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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that…
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I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must…
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There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
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After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously…
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For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets…
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That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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