You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Let go of all your hurt and be healed.

It is better to live with great faith than in fear.

Apparently, she was going to visit an evil witch with a scary poet vampire.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.