A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Develop your prayer language

Healthy self-esteem rests upon a strong foundation of core values and an inclination to act and speak in alignment with those values.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Fenway is the essence of baseball