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" Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of. "

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" Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it. "

" All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life. "

" I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

" I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted. "

" Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go. "

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" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "

" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

" I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "

" I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. "

" I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father! "

" All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.' "

" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

" What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise. "

" I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did. "

" Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. "

" People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side. "

" Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic. "

" You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. "

" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "

" I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.' "

" I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something. "

" I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights. "

" Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. "

" I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from. "

" As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no. "

" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "