Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

Convert your time into value

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.

The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy