I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

All of nature is resurrection.

Real success doesn't care how you get there.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.