I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually.

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

The most important wisdom of life is to have the eagerness to gain wisdom.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.