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"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."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
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"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."
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"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."
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"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."
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"Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding."
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"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."
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"There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way."
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"What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change."
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"Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out."
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"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."
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"Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it."
People
"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."
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"When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody."
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"I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life."
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"But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing."
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