I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

- Norbert Leo Butz

I make decisions quickly.

- Norbert Leo Butz

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation b…

- Norbert Leo Butz

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstag…

- Norbert Leo Butz

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

- Norbert Leo Butz

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love sto…

- Norbert Leo Butz

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

- Norbert Leo Butz

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

- Norbert Leo Butz

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

- Norbert Leo Butz