You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?