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" I've been swimming recreationally about five times a week for years just at the Y. "

Norbert Leo Butz

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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. "

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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

" I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" I've never seen 'Mad Men.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I've never seen 'The Sophranos.' These sort of seminal shows. "

Norbert Leo Butz

" 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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" Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me. "

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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. "

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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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" If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. "

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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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" I make decisions quickly. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

Norbert Leo Butz

" 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. "

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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?' "

Norbert Leo Butz

" I have 10 brothers and sisters. "

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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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" 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. "

Norbert Leo Butz

" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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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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