I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.
She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.
When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
