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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.
- Accept
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.
- Nov 07, 2020
In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020