I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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One of the things that’s great about doing a show over and over again… is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time… to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
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There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Artists need to express.
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I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that’s what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, “Hey asshole, I told you so”.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
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