Rob Urbinati famous quotes

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Jobs #Home #Long

I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Jobs #Writing #Hands

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Thinking #Theatre #Actors

I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Character #Training #Theatre

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Passion #Play #Scribbles

I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Girl #Writing #Mean

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.
-- Rob Urbinati

#Opportunity #Paper #Figures

Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

I don't do office work at home.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.