Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.