I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

Mako

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.

Mako

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

Mako

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

Mako

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

Mako

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

Mako

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Sanaa Lathan

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

John Deacon

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

Johnny Mathis

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Penelope Cruz

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

Sarah McLachlan

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Neil Young

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

James Levine

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jeanette Winterson

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

Ann Robinson

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Mario Lemieux

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A. R. Ammons

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Bernadette Peters

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Emeril Lagasse

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Meriwether Lewis

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Claude Monet

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Zebulon Pike

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

Ville Valo

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Jarvis Cocker

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Paul Cezanne

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Karolina Kurkova

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Zac Efron

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Valerie Jarrett

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Steven Spielberg

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

Alan Ladd

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Sally Rand

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Thomas Fuller

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Benjamin Harrison

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Debbie Harry

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Isak Dinesen

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Stevie Nicks

I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

Emeril Lagasse

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Robbie Fowler