I never enjoyed being famous.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.