Quotable Quotes: Backstage in the 2005 Tony Press Room

WHO: The 2005 Tony winners

WHAT: The 59th Annual Tony Awards

WHERE: The Rainbow Room

WHEN: June 5, 2005

"I've been fortunate enough to win an Oscar, a Pulitzer and a Tony, and I still can't do the Sunday crossword puzzle." —Doubt playwright John Patrick Shanley

"I'm incredibly tired but incredibly happy." —Dirty Rotten Scoundrels star Norbert Leo Butz

"There is no great play without comedy. Funny comes into anything." —Mike Nichols

"I'm just an Oscar and a Grammy away from being Rita Moreno." —Billy Crystal joking about winning all four major awards Oscar, Grammy, Emmy Tony

"She's giving a magnificent performance. She blew me away." —Doubt star Cherry Jones on why she graciously acknowledged fellow nominee Kathleen Turner in her acceptance speech

"One time I had a dream where I asked him if I was any good and he told me, 'You have your own voice.'" —Adam Guettel on his grandfather Richard Rodgers

"I think they helped me tap into a sillier side of myself." —Spamalot's Sara Ramirez on her male co-stars

"They play it like the Tokyo String Quartet." —Doubt director Doug Hughes on his cast

"The most challenging thing is finding the vocal and physical stamina to do this show eight times a week." --The Light in the Piazza star Victoria Clark

"We were the underdogs and the Tony voters, as the insidious salesman of Glengarry would say, put us on the board." —Glengarry Glen Ross producer Jeffrey Richards

"He's the uber nerd. The kid drowning in his own mucus." —Dan Fogler on his characterThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

"I guess maybe 10 or 12 minutes." —Doubt's Adriane Lenox on how much stage time she has in the show

"I haven't seen any of them yet. They may be very displeased with me." —Glenglarry Glen Ross star Liev Schreiber on his co-stars, two of which Alan Alda and Gordon Clapp he beat in the Best Featured Actor category

"The best work I've ever done in my life is 700 Sundays. It's brought me back to myself and doing what I do best, which is be in front of people." —Billy Crystal

"I don't think Robert Goulet would have kissed a guy in '83." —La Cage aux Folles producer Marty Richards

"This is only my second play on Broadway. I've had a long career in the theater, but I only recently started working in this zip code." —Doubt director Doug Hughes

"There's absolutely nothing difficult about it, which is why we can't wait to get to the theater every night." —Cherry Jones

"To be perfectly honest, I thought Michael Stuhlbarg would win." —Liev Schreiber on his fellow nominee

"I'm doing a big ritual of a lot of vitamins and herbs. It's a bloodsport—this kind of comedy." —Norbert Leo Butz

"Except for the baggy pants, I feel like I'm right where I've always been." —Bill Irwin on making the transition from clown to serious actor

"I sat there thinking, 'We are in the toilet! This is backlash big time!'" —Spamalot director Mike Nichols on fearing early in the evening that his show would be shut out

"The fact that it's happened like this is the American Dream." —Dan Fogler on Spelling Bee's quick journey to Broadway

"'Really good, baby." —Bill Irwin on what Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? co-star Kathleen Turner said to him when he won the Tony

Compiled by Beth Stevens