It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.