Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

It's going to be Perry, it's going to be Romney...It's sort of a battle for the soul of the Republican Party - and they have no soul, but the space where a soul would be.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.