Trevor Nunn Quotes

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself. ~ Trevor Nunn

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ~ Trevor Nunn

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety. ~ Trevor Nunn

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work. ~ Trevor Nunn

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ~ Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that. ~ Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. ~ Trevor Nunn

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. ~ Hugh Jackman

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. ~ Trevor Nunn

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant. ~ Trevor Nunn

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed. ~ Trevor Nunn

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ~ Trevor Nunn

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. ~ Trevor Nunn

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ~ Trevor Nunn

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form. ~ Cameron Mackintosh

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ~ Trevor Nunn

Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. ~ Trevor Nunn

When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster. ~ Kevin Spacey

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm. ~ Trevor Nunn

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. ~ Trevor Nunn

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. ~ Trevor Nunn

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera. ~ Trevor Nunn

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go. ~ Antony Sher

I like what you've done to the place,' he says, eyeing the ripped fabric and scorched stuffing hanging from the ceiling and walls. ~ Trevor Alan Foris

The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer. ~ Trevor Francis

Catching sight of the rotund Levaedet Ringmaster striding through the crowds, high above them on his disproportionately long legs, she allows herself a moment to imagine the smell of Candyfloss mingling with toffee apples and salted popcorn; the screams of laughter from the carousel and Ferris wheel... ~ Trevor Alan Foris

Along with former President Bill Clinton, we have Sam Nunn to thank for the sorry debacle of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' ~ David Mixner

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. ~ Trevor Dunn

You two have no idea, do you? What living in the real world is like? ~ Trevor Alan Foris

Trevor shook his head and might have even rolled his eyes, but it just made me grin. I could tell by then that it wasn't an ugly eye-rolling. It was his "I guess I can put up with you" eye roll.

Basically, he really, really liked it. ~ Mariana Zapata

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. ~ Gregory Nunn

Good teachers understand knowledge, but brilliant teachers understand ignorance ~ Trevor Wright

With all due respect,' Elisphae mutters, 'the world would not miss us. ~ Trevor Alan Foris

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice. ~ Trevor Brooking

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again. ~ Anson Carter

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different. ~ Trevor Brooking

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane. ~ Trevor Noah

Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift. ~ William Trevor

is yank it. It'll release eventually." "It usually does, when you yank it," he said with a smile. Nana wrapped both hands around the fleshy appendage and started pulling on it with a series of quick, short tugs. "I know I can jerk it off," Nana said. "I just gotta keep tugging." I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing. Behind the camera, Trevor was shaking with silent laughter and turning red. ~ Alexa Land

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room. ~ Trevor Donovan

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas. ~ Trevor Dunn

and thread, and even bandages, because he knew those at the clinic would not be sterile. The hospital was one of those communist-built structures of steel and glass, slapped up in the fifties, that could have been designed by a four-year-old. The workmanship was so shoddy that the cement abutments and window ledges were already crumbling. Probably not ~ Trevor Scott

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally. ~ Trevor Noah

... what could be more ridiculous than walking through a painting? ~ Trevor Alan Foris

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building. ~ Trevor Linden

Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. ~ Trevor Noah

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk. ~ Sam Nunn

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name? ~ Trevor McDonald

That's because you hate parties," said Trevor. I corrected him. "I hate parties with more than 16 people, remember? It's an exact science," Trevor chuckled, the sound hitting me right in the pit of my stomach."The 16 person rule, I remember now. You were always specific about that number ~ L. H. Cosway

I cried myself, thinking of the grass growing on her tennis court, and the cruelty that was natural. ~ William Trevor

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells. ~ Trevor O'Hoy

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement. ~ Trevor Rabin

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. ~ William Trevor

But the real world doesn't go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening. And at some point you have to choose; black or white, pick a side. You can try to hide from it. You can say, oh I don't take sides, but at some point, life will force you to pick a side. ~ Trevor Noah

There is no such thing as a harmless truth. ~ Gregory Nunn

Where are you off to in such a hurry?" His stunning green eyes bore through me. "A corpse
convention?" Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous.
"What are you running away from?" I retorted. "Your mirror? ~ Ellen Schreiber

In Soweto you were always hearing about men getting doused with pots of boiling water - often a woman's only recourse. And men were lucky if it was water. Some women used cooking oil. Water was if the woman wanted to teach her man a lesson. Oil meant she wanted to end it. ~ Trevor Noah

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea? ~ Trevor Hall

Y'know, I kind of prefer it when the dead stay dead.'
'Pot. Kettle. Black,' Owen said.
'Yeah,' agreed Jack with a shrug. 'The difference is, I do it with style. ~ Trevor Baxendale