All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.