At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says "yes" to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.