For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Neil Gaiman

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

Josh Hutcherson

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Michael Leboeuf

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Edmund Burke

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

Herbert Croly

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Tom Cochrane

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

R. D. Laing

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Roberto Benigni

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

William Shakespeare

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher