“When I first heard “Wind Beneath My Wings”, I thought: “I’m not singing that.” [Longtime friend and producer] Marc Shaiman…
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[on “Miseryâ€] “I turned that down because I didn’t want to saw off someone’s foot, even though the role won an Oscar [for Kathy Bates].
[on “Misery”] “I turned that down because I didn’t want to saw off someone’s foot, even though the role won…
Sue even had a friend blowing marijuana smoke into her face as she passed away. She was high until the bitter end…
[on Sue Mengers who she played on Broadway] “Sue even had a friend blowing marijuana smoke into her face as…
As an actor you’re supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the ’90s, I wasn’t really an actor anymore…
“As an actor you’re supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a…
[on Susan Boyle] “She is an act whose time has come. People love that voice…
[on Susan Boyle] “She is an act whose time has come. People love that voice. She sings straight. She doesn’t…
As Joan Crawford once said, “I’ll show ya a pair of Golden Globes!â€
“As Joan Crawford once said, “I’ll show ya a pair of Golden Globes!”.”
[Accusing Lady Gaga of stealing her Dolores DeLago routine humorously] I’ve been doing singing mermaid since 1980. You can keep the meat dress and the firecracker boobs. Mermaid’s mine.
[Accusing Lady Gaga of stealing her Dolores DeLago routine humorously] I’ve been doing singing mermaid since 1980. You can keep…
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
“I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always…
I’m not just vain, I’m ignorant. I’m vignorant!…
“I’m not just vain, I’m ignorant. I’m vignorant!”
On desire: If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life…
On desire: If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
We were very poor, it was a hard-scrabble childhood, not particularly happy…
[on growing up in Hawaii]: We were very poor, it was a hard-scrabble childhood, not particularly happy. The best part…
My parents (mother Ruth a seamstress, father Fred a painter) were not encouraging.
My parents (mother Ruth a seamstress, father Fred a painter) were not encouraging. My father put everybody down. Yeah, it…
I’ve never been to a sex orgy in my entire life. Studio 54 was way worse than the baths…
“I’ve never been to a sex orgy in my entire life. Studio 54 was way worse than the baths.” Edit:…
I was riveting. Yes, it was a place where gay men met and had sex. I didn’t see that…
“I was riveting. Yes, it was a place where gay men met and had sex. I didn’t see that. Someone…
Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
“Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for…
I want world peace. Please. Just for my sake, before I go. I also hope that Meryl Streep has the good taste to step aside and let the rest of us have a crack…
I want world peace. Please. Just for my sake, before I go. I also hope that Meryl Streep has the…
Fuck’EM IF THEY CAN’T TAKE A JOKE!
“You know, I wanted to leave you with the memory of the good beneath the gaudy, the saint beneath the…
I love to work. I love the idea of putting a show together, and I love the idea of putting musical numbers together …
“I love to work. I love the idea of putting a show together, and I love the idea of putting…
Work is a process of finding out who you are, once you do you can lie down…
“Work is a process of finding out who you are, once you do you can lie down.”
[Our father] didn’t like us wearing make up and we had a curfew some ridiculous hour like ten o’clock, and if you weren’t in the house you usually got locked out…
“[Our father] didn’t like us wearing make up and we had a curfew some ridiculous hour like ten o’clock, and…
I LOVE the idea of being a wild woman, but I don’t really want to be one…
“I LOVE the idea of being a wild woman, but I don’t really want to be one. I think about…
I like art and I like work…
“I like art and I like work. And the whole thrust of my life has been toward those two things,…
My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.
“My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical…
When I moved to New York, I was very disappointed in how parts of the city looked…
“When I moved to New York, I was very disappointed in how parts of the city looked. I was so…
My specialty is to make people laugh really, really hard and then turn around and make them cry. That’s what I do.
“My specialty is to make people laugh really, really hard and then turn around and make them cry. That’s what…
