The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.