These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
We rest our case on the production numbers.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.