Susan Stroman Quotes

#1. I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

Kate Baldwin

#2. I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all- immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy- it saves you.

Susan Stroman

#3. Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

Susan Stroman

#4. It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

Susan Stroman

#5. It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.

Susan Stroman

#6. I don't want to work with someone who's nervous, I want to work with someone who is fearless

Susan Stroman

#7. You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

Susan Stroman

#8. What did Diane know about this? What was her connection? Could she be the mastermind behind the blond man and the man in the tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase and maybe even Jackie's mother's strange behavior?

Joseph Fink

#9. I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

Susan Stroman

#10. You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.

Susan Stroman

#11. I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

Susan Stroman

#12. I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.

Susan Stroman

#13. There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.

Ted Bundy

#14. I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

Susan Stroman

#15. We smile, because this is how we save the world.

Isaac Marion

#16. Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

Luther Allison

#18. I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

Susan Stroman

#19. I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.

Susan Stroman

#20. I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on.

Susan Stroman

#21. Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#22. I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

Susan Stroman

#23. My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

Susan Stroman

#24. As my mom used to say,If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.

Cat Adams

#25. I thought: This is not good.
I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all.
I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

John Green

#26. The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

L. Ron Hubbard

#27. Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day - hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to get along better. The more TV they watch, the more unruly they are by school age.

Daniel Goleman

#28. I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Susan Stroman

#29. What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?

Frederick Douglass

#30. I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

Susan Stroman

#31. I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

Susan Stroman

#32. Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.

Bryant McGill

#33. I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a country song.

Brad Meltzer

#34. As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Tony Judt