Patsy Rodenburg quotes

“I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

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“When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

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“You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

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“You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

Source : Patsy Rodenburg (2002). “The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer”, p.164, Palgrave Macmillan

“Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

Source : "A working life: The voice coach". Interview with Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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“You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.”
-- Patsy Rodenburg

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“Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.”

“To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.”

“Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.”

“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”

“To add to truth distracts from it,”

“Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.”

“Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”

Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.