Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

I'm addicted to directing!

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

If there is no wind row.

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.