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Jason Robert Brown
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 20
,
1970
Love
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
Jason Robert Brown
Work
Best
Great
You
Theatre
People
Wonderful
Other
Else
Everyone
Collaborating
Out
About
Give
Wonderful People
Getting
Them
Your
What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.
Jason Robert Brown
Rock
Always
Rock Star
Wanted
Star
I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.
Jason Robert Brown
Book
Care
About
Mormon
Write
Never
Very
dont Care
Different
Wanted
Them
Thing
You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
Jason Robert Brown
You
Vision
Control
Control Freak
Freak
Having
Point
Supposed
Protect
Artist
Going
Whole
Why
As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
Jason Robert Brown
Character
Me
Sense
Costume
Onstage
Anything
Interesting
Much
Act
Actor
Utterly
Needing
I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.
Jason Robert Brown
Life
You
Stars
Think
About
Write
Beautifully
Very
Them
Specific
Bring
What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.
Jason Robert Brown
Try
Way
Say
Kind
Something
Only
Write
Stuff
Very
Trying
Personal
Them
Aspire
Figure
Hardest
Things
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
Jason Robert Brown
Myself
Me
You
Job
Past
Dig
Once
Out
Find
Scary
Only
Write
Writer
Put
Idea
Period
Sort
Am
Still
Get
Then
Really
Page
Who
Expose
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.
Jason Robert Brown
People
About
Write
Outside
Outsiders
Know
Because
Felt
Always
How
Get
Quite
Who
I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.
Jason Robert Brown
Time
Hide
Living
Think
Find
Minute
Never
Performer
Like
Period
Sort
Spotlight
Go
Very
Done
Then
Really
Meant
Brief
Need
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
Jason Robert Brown
You
People
Comedy
Feeling
Think
Drama
Extreme
Way
Respond
Laugh
Response
Characters
Possibly
Some
Something
Only
Could
Feels
Real
Very
Going
Situations
Them
Then
Your
The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.
Jason Robert Brown
Genius
Out
Still
Jury
Whether
I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.
Jason Robert Brown
Writing
Cares
Else
Way
About
Open
No-One
Attention
Does
Am
Still
Doing
Question
Ambivalent
Anyone
Anyone Else
Whether
Theater
Should
Doubtful
Paying
You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
Jason Robert Brown
You
People
Writing
Complicated
Other
Medium
Musicals
Know
Knowing
Comfortable
Without
Understand
How
Jump
Form
Mean
Realizing
Necessarily
Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.
Jason Robert Brown
Love
Me
Recording
Other
Immediate
Crucial
Piano
Simultaneous
Between
Performer
Like
Audience
Get
Same
Sitting
Behind
Connection
Why
Satisfying
Things
I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.
Jason Robert Brown
Work
Good
Me
Feeling
Goodness
Understanding
Rage
Guess
Fury
Easily
Out-Of-Control
Never
Particularly
Sort
Access
Accessible
Real
Been
Very
Thank
Person
Thank Goodness
Explaining
Even
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