Robert Lepage Quotes

Robert Lepage

Profession : Playwright

Birth : December 12, 1957

With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.

Robert Lepage

In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

Robert Lepage

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

Robert Lepage

The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.

Robert Lepage

The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.

Robert Lepage

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

Robert Lepage

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

Robert Lepage

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

Robert Lepage

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

Robert Lepage

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

Robert Lepage

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

Robert Lepage

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

Robert Lepage

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

Robert Lepage

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.

Robert Lepage

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

Robert Lepage

The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the world.

Robert Lepage

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

Robert Lepage

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

Robert Lepage

Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.

Robert Lepage

I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.

Robert Lepage