Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

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.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

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.