Tim Crouch famous quotes

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
-- Tim Crouch

#Responsibility #Play #Looks

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
-- Tim Crouch

#Art #Special #Theatre

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.
-- Tim Crouch

#Character #Underrated

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
-- Tim Crouch

#Art #Practice #Violence

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
-- Tim Crouch

#Children #Exercise #Shadow

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
-- Tim Crouch

#Art #Ideas #Creating

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
-- Tim Crouch

#Theatre #Emotion

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
-- Tim Crouch

#Light #Atoms #Actors

You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.