Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.

It is important to learn that love is your life, love is spirituality.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.