Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Never be bullied into silence.

The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.