I just love kids. I always have.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

A touch of kindness is like a ray of light in deep darkness.

The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.