What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

You are your passion. Life is your ultimate mission so never forget to enjoy the adventure.

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.