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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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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
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"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
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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."
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"A close-up on screen can say all a song can."
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"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
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"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."
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"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
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"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
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"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
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