Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Never be bullied into silence.

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.

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.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!