The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.

It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing A potent spell. All women alike Fight fiercely for a child.

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

Smoking must be harder than not smoking. For the latter does not require any action.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Disappear in books. Come back as something better.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.