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.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

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.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!