Even smiling makes my face ache.

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

Has anybody seen my tambourine?

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

I moved to L.A. because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

I believe religion is not a path to God, it´s a path away from God. Religion is a human invention. Jesus never wanted to be found in a religion, but in a relationship.

Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there’s love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.

If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

We are a nation within a nation.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.