It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

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.

I have no wealth or splendors to give, but I have love and smiles to share.

I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.

I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.

Mental strength is something you either have or you haven't.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

They have said this is a lower level. Ridiculous! They're really both the same light, just two different forms.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?