You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.