I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Most people living in the world are confused about life

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.

If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.