The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

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.

No doubt.. Endings are hard, but then again.. nothing ever really ends, does it??

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.