Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Your highest female grace is silence.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.