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

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.

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.

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

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.

Reflect onto the world what you want them to see. Let your heart help them figure out the rest of who you truly are.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

I want to make people laugh.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

Thought and action must never part company.

The only thing that works is a good script!

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.