Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Tyrone Guthrie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English director Tyrone Guthrie.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland. He is famous for his original approach to Shakespearean and modern drama.

English - Director | July 2, 1900 - May 15, 1971

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Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!

Tyrone Guthrie

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

Tyrone Guthrie

Astonish me in the morning!

Tyrone Guthrie

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

Tyrone Guthrie

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.

Tyrone Guthrie

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Tyrone Guthrie

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