I think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.

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.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.