When you buy a NEW PAIR of heels, walk up and down the stairs 10 times. Stairs are the most difficult THING, so if you can do stairs, then you can do EVERYTHING else.
Read MoreI FREQUENTLY find after a rehearsal of a PERFORMANCE that I have more BREATH, and can WALK better and climb STAIRS better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
Read MoreI'll watch something LIKE 'Paranormal Activity,' 'The Shining,' or 'Rosemary's Baby,' and I love them, but then I watch 'The People Under the Stairs' or 'Candyman,' and they FREAK me out. It's WEIRD because I don't where the line is. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I should watch and what I shouldn't.
Read MoreWhen I SAW 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' and Audrey Hepburn was standing in FRONT of Tiffany's in this Givenchy DRESS, or when I saw 'All About Eve,' I thought that period was just fabulous. I mean, who WOULD not want to walk down the stairs with their hands in their pockets, and say, 'Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.'
Read MoreI'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my LIFE I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, TAKING on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become LIKE a very old man. I knew something was WRONG, but I had no IDEA what.
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