“Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight year...” — Twyla Tharp Quote

“Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.”

“When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'”

“Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.”

“I hated having my hair down because it got into my face when I was playing sports. My mom would always put my hair down and make it all pretty, and by the time I got to school, I would have it up in a ponytail.”

“I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.”

“By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.”