The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

You not sell your talent, your genius; as soon as you do, you are a prostitute. You sell your work, but not your soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

Albert Camus

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Buddha

No more creepy online alter egos in the name of love.

Elizabeth Rudnick

I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are.

Bill Cosby

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Gregory Hines

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Marshall McLuhan

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

Barry White

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or against us. Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion. <br/><br/>Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

Abraham Lincoln

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

He who fears and doubts cannot make any progress either in the spiritual or worldly sphere. The mind is cramped. He alone is a hero, he alone attains greatness, who moves forward to realise the truth without caring whether the world is real or not.

Swami Adbhutananda