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I don't look like Brad Pitt.
I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
You are either visual or you're not.
I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.
Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.
There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.
Theater is the most important thing in life for me.
There's a civility that has always been a part of me.
When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.
I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.
I'm about possibilities and about surprises and the life force.
I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.
'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.
I am concerned about the musical theater, selfishly, because I love it.
My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.
Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.
I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.
TDF is more essential today than it was when it was first founded in 1968.
I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.
I was totally delighted, interested in, and amused by my stint on 'Voyager.'
If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.
I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.
I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.
My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.
I did a benefit one night at Carnegie Hall with Bono and Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright.
I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys.
I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.
Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.
It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.
I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.
There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.
For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'
The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.
My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.
I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.
I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.
I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.
The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair venue for disagreement and enlightenment.
My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.
When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'
You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.
Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.
I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.
I was so successful in Cleveland, and we moved to Los Angeles, and there was nothing for me to do. All of a sudden, from being a success, I was a has-been at 13.
That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.