Success is like failure, It’s how you perceive it, It’s what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
I’m interested in the theater because I’m interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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.
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they’re taken from you...
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Tonight, tonight, won’t be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
Everyone tells tiny lies, what’s important really is the size.
Stay a child while you can be a child.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
The situation’s fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you’ve written.
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.
Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that’s another story, Never mind- Anyway...
A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you’ll do yourself a service.