I outlived the bastards..
Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….
I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony..
As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….
Discover what you are..
I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..
I didn't not perform..
Nothing is 'just' anything with you.
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..
Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….
We are being programmed by mental pygmies..
The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable..
I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..
I respect religion and will respect any religion..
I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..
I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss..
Where I came from, no one was a writer..
Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly uniq….
Underconfidence breeds underachievement..