You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

It is normal to be nervous.

I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.