Tadashi Suzuki quotes

“There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.”
-- Tadashi Suzuki

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“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”

“I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.”

“Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.”

Source : Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.

“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.

“I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.”

Source : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Ashley Parker Angel, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.

“It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.”

“The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.”

“The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.”

“TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.”

“It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,”