My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

I never enjoyed being famous.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else

Make yourself a slave to good habits

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

I’d rather be short, fat, and ugly than take after that man. (Nick)

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.