I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

Do not fear mistakes.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.

When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us!

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.