Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

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.

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

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.

My main goal is to tell a story.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.