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Anger is so constructive.
I like all kinds of input.
I never even had a MySpace.
Nature is a series of murders.
'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
The best things happen in the dark.
I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.
I love British female directors lately.
I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you.
I love when a director says, "I don't know."
Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.
There are a lot of silly projects out there.
London is the English-speaking theatre capital.
The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.
Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.
I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
There's something cool about being a stealth classic.
I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.
I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.
Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.
Doing 'Hedwig' totally contributed to my acceptance of myself.
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.
Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.
I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.
I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.
Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.
In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.
The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.
Getting the blood moving through your body does do wonders for your complexion.
I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.
I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.
After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?
I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.
Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.
I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.