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• It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
  • On his initial reaction, as a student, to the works of Shakespeare, The Washington University Record (25 January 1996)

• Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily — but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
  • Interview at CrankyCritic.com

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• Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

• I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture — but not screamers.

• I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence.

• I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

• Don't call me stupid!