Troupe Quotes

"I did this Archaos circus thing, which was a show called `Metal Clown.` They`re a French circus troupe, no animals, very over-the-top, and they do lots of stunts like juggling chain saws, all kinds of fire, it`s like a freak show, you know, but blown up, enlarged. Basically they had a troupe of 80 Brazilian artists with drums, the whole troupe. I left school at 16 and went to do that, my sister as well. I learned a lot off them, their rhythms, the way they were throwing them out. I`d always be playing during spare time with one of the guys, and he`d say, `It`s wrong` about the rhythms, but I learned later on it`s just `slop`; not even slop, it doesn`t have to be on, if you know what I mean. Not on all the time, just a natural rhythm. I certainly used that idea in Jamiroquai`s music."

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

Acting means living, it`s all I do and all I`m good at. If I weren`t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingénue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingénue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn`t big in the mining camps.

He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingnue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingnue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn`t big in the mining camps.