The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Artists need to express.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

The door of opportunity is always open, but nobody bothers to push the door open. They just get tired out by knocking and then they leave.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.