Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

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

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.