All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.