Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

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.

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

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.

And the only answer I know isThat no child should give up on life.Math deals in absolutes.But life is the most absolute of all.

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Art is craft, not inspiration.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.