In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

I take a breath when I have to.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.