The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.