If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.