Quotes by Norbert Leo Butz - Page 1

I make decisions quickly.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
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I have 10 brothers and sisters.
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Brother
Brothers And Sisters
Brothers
Sisters
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Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Calming
Water
Effect
Surrounded
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I've been swimming recreationally about five times a week for years just at the Y.
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Swimming
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If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
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Helping
Responsibility
Stakes
Helps
Individualize
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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Contemporary
Narrative
Theatrical
Love People Way
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I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
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Different Roles
Repertory
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I've never seen 'Mad Men.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I've never seen 'The Sopranos.' These sort of seminal shows.
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Mad Men
Sopranos
Breaking
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
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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.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Shoots
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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.
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Real Life
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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.
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Ideas
Opening
Play
Way
Sell
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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.
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Life Me My Life
Sam
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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.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Knowing
Moments
Next
Submit
Thrilling
Literally
Onstage
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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.
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Crush
Gary
Jimmy
Cagney
Cooper
Michael
Gene
Hackman
Lee
Russell
Simon
Tommy
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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?
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Hate
Mean
Talking
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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?'
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Feet
Just Do It
Table
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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.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
New York
Successful
Wicked
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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.
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New York Times
Wicked
Bad Review
Onstage
Review
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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.
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Fried Chicken
Survived
Assistant
Way School High School
Chicken
Fried
High School And College
Manager
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In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.
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Play
Real
Two
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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.
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Underneath
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I remember really getting into 'The Wiz' and an old musical called 'Purlie,' which Melba Moore sang. I liked those roof-raising shows because I connected deeply with the gospel aspects of those musicals.
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Gospel
Aspects
Sang
Moore
Musicals
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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.'
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Time Music Dad
Gospel
Introduced
Listened
Musicals
Soul Music
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I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Jealousy
Bitterness
Entitlement
Subtle
Work Myself I Am
Apparent
Unmistakable
Respecting
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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.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Scary
Surprise
Time Great Character
Big Surprise
Prepare
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I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues.
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Avid
Feminism
Mary
Reading Books
Teenage
Missed
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I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Jesus
Ambition
Bible
Core Values
Correlation
Loss
Root
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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.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Alabama
Equity
Peter
Card
Earned
Festival
Graduated
Member
Officially
Pan
Peter Pan
Shakespeare
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I've always been drawn more to film. But 'Bloodline,' to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Narrative
Time Great Always
Time Great Me
Complicit
Drawn
Editor
Great Thing
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Most of my work in New York has been on new musicals. And all through the preview process, they throw you new songs, new lyrics, new choreography, new scripts; you're constantly getting new material. You might get it in the morning and put it in the show at night. It happens every single day, so those muscles are pretty toned.
Norbert Leo Butz / Actor
Choreography
Muscles
Preview
Scripts
Work Morning Night
Every Single Day
New Material
Single Day
Toned
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