When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.