Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

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

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

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

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

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

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.