Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

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.

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

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.

Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.

I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

I'm not against anybody having gone [to Donald Trump's inauguration], but, for me, it was not the right place to be.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.