I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Amy Winehouse

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton, attributed,

My mother never breastfed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

Rodney Dangerfield

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

Gene Kelly

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter Glass

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Chinese Proverb

Trust and believe, and you will achieve.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Terence

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett