If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

Fortune is with you for an hour and against you for ten!

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

I've always been a businesswoman.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.