Patsy Rodenburg Quotes

#1. You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

Patsy Rodenburg

#2. Carl reckoned that it was none of his affair until his life was on the line. Even if these two blokes shagged each other senseless every chance they got, he didn't see how that really affected him.

Abigail Roux

#3. spend time with your food; every minute of your meal should be happy. Not many people have the time and the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a meal like that. We are very fortunate.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

Patsy Rodenburg

#5. Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Rupert Brooke

#6. I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text

Patsy Rodenburg

#7. There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Margaret Deland

#8. Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Peter Drucker

#9. The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

Mandy Patinkin

#10. I wonder what it would be like to be with a boy who blushes when he looks at my skin.

Kiersten White

#11. This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

Dave Barry

#12. I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

Whitey Ford

#13. Gentleness is a great strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Allows for imperfection - in yourself and others.

Frances R. Westley

#15. Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.

Patsy Rodenburg

#16. Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Frederik Pohl

#17. Pete roars with laughter and asks if Hodges knows what the blond said when she opened the box of Cheerios. Hodges says he does not. Pete makes big amazed eyes and says, Oh! Look at the cute little doughnut seeds!

Stephen King

#18. You can't act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

Patsy Rodenburg

#19. Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

Matthew Henry