My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

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.

No, Mama. The sweetest hallelujah will be when Billie can walk in the front door of any place she pleases, and nobody will tell her she doesn't belong.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.

I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.