I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

The investing public understands that you need to do things to position yourself.

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.