There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

I'm always homesick for the journey, ” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...no matter what it may hold.

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!