The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

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.

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.