I essentially get to represent my community on television.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal.

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.