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.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

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.

In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.