Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I ...
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, ...
We had a great dramatics department in school, so I did a lot of plays and theatre there. Later, when I was the captain of our student's ward, I figured out that if you find something you really love to do, you don't have to work for the rest of your...
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as ...
The ride had begun. The theatre and club spectaculars seemed to stick up into the sky at all sorts of crazy angles, probably because most of them were planted diagonally on rooftops. Follow Thru, Whoopee, Show Boat, El Fay Club, Club Richman, Texas G...
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, ...
I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
We must make children and families a national priority.
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.
