Joe Mantello Quotes

• Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

  Joe Mantello

  Believe, What Matters, Redemption

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• No veo el guión como un simple trampolín para mi interpretación. Haces todo lo posible por servir a la visión que tienen los guionistas, no eliminándote de la ecuación, sino intentando filtrar lo que pretendían a través de tu arte.

  Joe Mantello

  Vision, Trying, Filters

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• I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

  Joe Mantello

  Gente, Querer, Amable

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• I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

  Joe Mantello

  Directors, Elements, World

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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• I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Ideas, Leader

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• I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

  Joe Mantello

  Different, Needs, Actors

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• But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.

  Joe Mantello

  Mistake, Play, Musical

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• If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

  Joe Mantello

  Would Be, Gone, Psychotic

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• I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

  Joe Mantello

  Self, People, Doubt

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• I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Brave, Soul

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