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

George C. Wolfe

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" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "

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" The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show. "

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

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" When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free. "

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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. "

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" As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me. "

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" Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. "

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" One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room. "

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" I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "

George C. Wolfe

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

George C. Wolfe

" At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences. "

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

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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. "

George C. Wolfe

" 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. "

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" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

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" I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless. "

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" 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. "

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" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "

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

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" I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers. "

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" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "

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" When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it. "

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" There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.' "

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" 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. "

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