I'm doing a new musical on Broadway which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz ' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

Respectable means rich and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I'm not an anarchist but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says that's for family that's for me.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Yes you who called us godless we found our faith in Adolf Hitler and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day that is our good fortune!

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

I wasn't with Joseph but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump faith in its future progress and desire to serve the great cause of this progress should be called not a humanist but a humanitarian and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.