Young Jean Lee quotes

  • I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
    -- Young Jean Lee

    #Thinking #Theatre #Way

  • I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.
    -- Young Jean Lee

    #Crazy #People #Outsiders

  • Aging and death is what happens to everybody.
    -- Young Jean Lee

    #Aging #Happens

  • Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

  • The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  • Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

  • Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

  • Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

  • I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

  • The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  • One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.