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Leadership must be established from the top down. ↗

— Sam Nunn

#established #leadership #must #top

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#auditioned #became #company #few #got

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#business #direction #having #instincts #involved

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#arrive #challenge #change #developed #development

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#being #canceled #cast #disappointed #fix

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#delivered #doubt #enthusiasm #eventually #experienced

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#comment #communicates #criticism #fully #group

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#based #close #creativity #dangerously #director

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#back #came #come #difficult #early

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#developed #english #english literature #i #idolatry