Quotes by Bill Irwin - Page 1

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Disappointing
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It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Exhilarating
Play
Tired
Thrilled
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From the earliest memories I have, I liked physical, funny things.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Funny
Funny Things
Memories
Liked
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Physical
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The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Dance
Ballet
Dancing
Powerful
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I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Shy
Extrovert
Necessarily
Voices
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It's shocking to think of the universe now without Robin Williams' energy, even muted.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Shocking
Muted
Robin
Williams
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I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Clown
Notion
Quaint
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Eight
Invention
Time Great Doing
Great Time
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People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
Bill Irwin / Actor
Drag
Ask
Done Me People
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I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Jackie
Silent
Comedies
Gleason
Phil
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We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Lightning
Primal
Desires
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Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Thrill
Nominated
Page
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I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Bother
Home Mother I Am
Brother And Sister
Charge
Entertained
Oldest
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We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Lines
Long Story
Twice
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Competition between men is a fuel that's useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn't tell the same story over too many times, but it's amazing how durable that story is.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Amazing
Be Careful
Careful
Competition
Fuel
Useful
Between
Durable
Times
Same Story
Tell
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People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Tickets
Afterwards
Booking
No Sense
Telling
They Say
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The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Stage
Time Great Together
Happier
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We used to have a photo of me in full clown makeup taken when my son was 5. And when he was 17 or 18, he said, 'Yeah, that thing used to scare me. I hated that photo.' So it is scary; clowning is scary to people.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Clown
Clowning
Makeup
Scare
Scary
Son
Yeah
Me People Son
Photo
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Here's my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of my being a clown, but I don't remember her rolling with laughter. But with Shiner, she could not sit up straight!
Bill Irwin / Actor
Clown
Laughter
Rolling
Tolerant
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Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Dark
Lines
Rehearsal
Stage
Theater
Favorite
Conduct
Edward
Facing
Premier
Quote
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What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn't brought to them via the spoken word. It's from a different place; it's a different quality of laughter.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Quality
Comedy
Different Place
Love Is
Spoken Word
Brought
Laugh
Spoken
Via
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Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.
Bill Irwin / Actor
Acting
Audience
Break
Clowning
Fourth
Stage
Wall
Opposite
Together Look People
Count
Handkerchief
Room
Plays
Relating
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