• "That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other."

- Clarissa Vaughn in The Hours

• "What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other . . . but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.”

- Barbra Streisand

• “Rock says, ‘This is who I am, and you have to take me for who I am.’ Theater seems to say, ‘Please love me.’ It’s the difference between Keith Richards and Mame.”

- Stew

• "I am not afraid. I can be brave like you. But I know I shall be homesick for you, even in Heaven."

- Little Women

• "I'm pretty sure the only way you get to have a life in the theater is that somewhere in your life you come across a group of people who don't need to, but somehow make room for you."

- Anna D. Shapiro's Tony acceptance speech for winning best director of August: Osage County