It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

I go inside my head and become that other me, the one I don't tell anybody about. The observer... I live in terror that one day I won't get to be Dani again.

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.