I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.