It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.