Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Satan can't steal your joy unless you let him.

You can't be passionate about gratitude and be crippled by ingratitude.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.