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After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
As long as they stay, something goes in their minds. And we want people to sit and listen and understand and learn something.
Beauty is not everything!
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
I don't know what Texas is all about. We kinda make jokes about it, like being run out of town. But we're brave enough to face it.
I don't think I've ever played Houston.
I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
I'm an old-fashioned girl.
I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
I'm very grateful that so many people are not sick any longer... I'm so grateful not to be going to so many funerals, and losing my friends.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
It was interesting to me to cut and then have to remember exactly where you were when you had to pick it up again.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
The company we've got now is brilliant.
The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
We know when we've got an uphill battle. It's harder for the boys than it is for me.
We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
You knew the dance numbers, and you knew that Fosse was gonna put it together, so you had to start at that level of energy again.
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.