To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.

STAR: My dad always told me that life will keep on kicking you if you let it. You’ve got to keep moving, and you’ve got to not look back.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

I must have 25 AT&T iPhones, maybe more than that. I've got plenty of Verizons. I just don't have them in the small size.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.