On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

I like the energy of live performance.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.