The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man