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" I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at. "

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" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "

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" You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie. "

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" I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that. "

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" I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do. "

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" I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have. "

" There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear. "

" My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent. "

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" These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is. "

" I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it. "

" I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York. "

" I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there. "

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" I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine. "

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