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

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.

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.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?