In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

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.

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.