The World Only Spins Forward Quotes

“You don’t play being the king, everyone around you plays that you are king.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“A few months into the run, the woman who gave me my massage on Fridays before the show said, “It’s the weirdest thing. You seem to be developing wing muscles.” Because there were these ridges of muscle I’d developed alongside my spine where I flexed the wings, opening and closing them.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“JENNIFER ENGSTROM (the Angel at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, 2015): I feel like we are in a bizarro Part 3 of Angels in America, and the ghost of Roy Cohn is sweetly caressing the nuts of an American president who rides naked on horseback with Vladimir Putin.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“Nothing, no right, is permanent.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“That’s what fabulousness does. It lifts me up, the person doing it, but it lifts everyone else up as well.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“You are fabulous creatures, each and every one.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“it’s more expensive to be a coward.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“obviously had just the most barren, misshapen moral landscape.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“there are two schools of directing. You stand where you are and demand actors come to you,”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“you go to where they are and you charm, seduce, empower them to go on the journey in the direction that you think is correct.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“Eighty percent of that cast died of AIDS.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“you’re gonna die, so what’s the point in knowing?” Literally, a doctor said that to me.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

“Leaders like Reagan and Bush are essentially as morally debased as the people who followed Hitler.”
― Isaac Butler, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America