I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.