I have 10 brothers and sisters.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

I make decisions quickly.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.