"The first big break was winning a scholarship……" — Trevor Nunn
"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."
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Trevor Nunn
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27 Quotes by Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn has 27 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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