Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.