In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. ↗
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. ↗
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. ↗
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. ↗
I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow. ↗
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. ↗
I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult. ↗
