It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

May the Lord give us a new spirit and new heart

No matter how difficult you may think that your life is currently becoming, brighter days are always ahead waiting to embrace us, if we never dare to stop pressing forward.

I don't write books inadvertently.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.