I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

We have more than we use.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.