Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch." She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.