It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Hey, look, I just regenerated a finger. Guess which one.

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.