You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides.

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 have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

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

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.