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"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy."
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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
Art
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
Choice
"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
Actor
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
Music
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
People
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
Music
"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."
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