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" All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is. "

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" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "

George C. Wolfe

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" Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.' "

" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "

" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "

" To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. "

" There's no place more theatrical than history. "

" In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other. "

" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "

" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "

" I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. "

" Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess. "

" The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. "

" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

" You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. "

" 'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives. "

" Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season. "

" If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. "

" I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter. "

George C. Wolfe

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" The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it. "

" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "

" A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility. "

" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "

" Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience. "

" Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating. "

George C. Wolfe

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" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "

" To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things. "

" I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well. "

" Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself. "

" I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play. "

" You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up. "