New York is the last true city.
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.
I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.
The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.
Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.