Words matter. These are the best Norbert Leo Butz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have 10 brothers and sisters.
I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I’m the person who’s always like, ‘Can we get up on our feet and just do it?’
I was in the original cast of ‘Wicked’, and that got a bad review in ‘The New York Times,’ and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.
It’s thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.
I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman; I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael Gambon. Simon Russell Beale.
If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
Sam Shepard is – I didn’t tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me want to do this for my life, it’s Sam Shepard.
I got my Actors’ Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in ‘Peter Pan’ at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.
I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.
If you are opening a play, a play that’s really about something, a play that’s really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
Sometimes, you don’t know what’s going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you get a great big surprise at the very last minute, which is scary sometimes. You don’t have a whole lot of time to prepare.
I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we’re all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.
I’ve sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there – little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.
I make decisions quickly.
I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You’re playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and soul music. My college girlfriend introduced me to musicals. She listened to them, so that was the first time I heard ‘Dream Girls.’
I’ve never seen ‘Mad Men.’ I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I’ve never seen ‘The Sopranos.’ These sort of seminal shows.
I have never been too concerned about things you’re supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there’s something underneath all that.
