I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

There’s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

A dead man cannot bite.

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.