I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

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.

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

Sorrow fades, " he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.