My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.