I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

Control leads to compliance

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.