I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard.I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

It doesn't matter how old you are, " Lila said. "What matters is how you live.

The meaning of life is life itself

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

I'll beat up on Republicans and Democrats alike, and they don't like it.

Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.

Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.