Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it. . . But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
Books are never harmless. . . they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.
It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set, and closed off to all crew members, even, unless we're cut. A lot of times, you're doing a scene in a movie and there are literally 35 people standing behind the camera all waiting to do their job, but here they have to be off the stage. On The Office, it is very much just the actors, a cameraman and a boom operator, like a real documentary, like we really are being documented.
The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.
The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.