The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.