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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
It's through sheer will that I can sing.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.
I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself
I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
