Martin Charnin Quotations

She's just breathtaking. She's one of the most wonderful child actresses I've ever had in my life. She brings a warmth and a humanity to the part that has been missing for a long time.

I always worked hard to maintain respect for the children. We never made them out to be fools. We treat them with dignity. They can be funny and heart warming. But, we treat them like people.

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

I was looking for an interesting story and exceptionally exotic characters,

What this show ends up being is the beneficiary of all the work that I've done in the previous incarnations of it. Every one of those shows was responsible for making something new happen, either by virtue of what an actor does by bringing something to it, or a piece blocking or a musical interpretation. I've put all of it together.

Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

a whole new crop of kids and adults.

This is her crowning performance. She is screamingly funny and still singing with that amazing voice.

This is her crowning performance, ... She is screamingly funny and still singing with that amazing voice.

The whole idea is that she stays 11 1/2 and the world changes around her.

It's a well-sculpted piece of musical theater or it wouldn't be done for so long. It touches the grandmother who at a one point was a mother who brought her child to the show.

That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't even remember the lyric or the tune.

It's not a trunk song by any stretch of the imagination,

If God had have wanted discussion Then God would have said 'Let's discuss it'

Tomorrow, you're always a day away.

You're never fully dressed without a smile.