You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

The devil is more interesting than God.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

History remembers most what you did last.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Everything [Jesus] taught and did was a summons to the humility and love that purge self-exaltation out of leadership and servility out of submission.

Music is my emotional tranquilizers

I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.