Quotes by Michael Arden - Page 1

I love Disney.
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Love I Love
Disney
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Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.
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Disaster
Ingenuity
Inspire
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Every decision you make has a consequence.
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Consequence
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I read 'Huffington Post' as if I am a shareholder.
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Post
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I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'
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Broadway
Debut
River
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You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile.
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Fragile
Short
Incredibly
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We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.
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Precious Life
Living
Precious
Realize
While
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We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.
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Ears
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I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.
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Acted
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I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.
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Upbringing
Rocky
Safe Place
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I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.
Michael Arden /
Animal
Spectacular
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I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.
Michael Arden /
Objects
Tactile
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I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over.
Michael Arden /
New World
Cd
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Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.
Michael Arden /
Deaf
Life Person Never
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Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.
Michael Arden /
Casting
Conversation
Helping
Inclusion
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I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.
Michael Arden /
Looking Back
Directing
Heading
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I often think about what love can inspire in the world, not just in the eyes of the object of your affection.
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Affection
Inspire
Love Eyes World
Object
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If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.
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Confusing
Mozart
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There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.
Michael Arden /
Company
Distinction
Strong
Weakest Link
Within
Actor
Link
Weakest
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A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.'
Michael Arden /
Vocal
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At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.
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Awakening
Denied
Spring
Perils
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Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.
Michael Arden /
Performing Arts
Accessible
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My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.
Michael Arden /
Drove
Grandparents
Jim
Moore
Pat
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Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.
Michael Arden /
Component
Musicals
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So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.
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Included
Mothers
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I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.
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Unconditional Love
Unconditional
Purest
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Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.
Michael Arden /
Outcast
Texas
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When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage.
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Haiti
Overwhelming
Selling
Stimulus
Plane
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I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.
Michael Arden /
Variety
Thrilled
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My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.
Michael Arden /
Together School High School
Collaborator
Designed
Island
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I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.
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Escaped
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I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.
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Refuse
Touching
Onstage
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As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves.
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Animal
Advocate
Responsibly
Souls
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The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.
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Intertwined
Staring
Love Time Eyes
Opposed
Same Direction
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It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'
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Deaf
Art Form
Musicals
Sharing
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The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.
Michael Arden /
Disabled
Actively
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The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.
Michael Arden /
Despite
Difficulty
Protest
Right Thing
Do The Right Thing
Stand Up
The Right Thing
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I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.
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Communication
Nonverbal
Creators
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I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.
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Angle
Creating
Performing
Reflecting
Chord
Liked
Directing
Saw
Piece
Same Things
Striking
Tune
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Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another.
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Able
Care
Haiti
Haitian
Heritage
Proud
Rich
Spirituality
Testament
Thrive
Together
Together People New
Come
Another
Nation
Create
Families
Rebuild
Survive
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It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I understand how they do it, and I just love being able to create the playground in which they build their beautiful sandcastle.
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Best Work
Love Best Work
Playground
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Say you have a young black kid, and you come to see a Sondheim show. You love the material, but you look on stage, and you don't see anyone who looks like you. That puts a barrier between the audience and what they're trying to absorb.
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Sondheim
Absorb
Love Look Black
Barrier
Puts
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At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together.
Michael Arden /
Differences
Embrace
Human Condition
Segregation
Condition
End Of The Day
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The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able to share and create so much art with a group of people I would have never imagined sharing and creating with. It's a true testament to the power of theater. There are no walls.
Michael Arden /
Deaf
Testament
Shaped
Walls
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