"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

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"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

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"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."

Power

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God

"It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved."

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"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."

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"I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream."

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