I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.