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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."

"I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress."

"Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight."

"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."

"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right."

"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."

"He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing."
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"I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80."

"We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast."

"The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent."

"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."

"Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them."

"The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again."

"We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it."
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