I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

How can we win souls for Christ? We must continue to preach the gospel of salvation.

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.

Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.