The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

At least is was a victory and at least we won.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

We are not a minor power in the Middle East; we are a significant player.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like.

I had left 'Ragtime' - and 'Ragtime' was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than 'The Lion King'.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.