 Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. |
| I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different. |
| Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out. |
| 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! |
| I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything. |
| In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. |
| A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? |
| The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. |
| 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. |
| It's through sheer will that I can sing. |
| It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. |
| There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. |
| How time files when you's doin' all the talking. |
| You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre 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. |
| Political movements always belong to the young. |
| In London they don't like you if you're still alive. |
| And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. |
| To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. |
| What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. |
| 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. |
