So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
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.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
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.
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.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.
