I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

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

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

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.