In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some 5, 000 times more powerful than that created by the brain.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

It's funny when I get recognized on the train. People either say ‘I love your show, dude’ or ‘Hey, where do you buy good weed?’

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

It's OK to tell your partner to objectify you. That's part of the fun of having a partner.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

I worked for a lot of directors.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.