I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off." "Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.