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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.
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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.
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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
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Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
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Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.
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My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.
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When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.
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It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.
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Teachers want to teach you theory, and that's fine, but when it comes to rock and roll, you only need three chords. There's something comforting about that.
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'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.
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I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.
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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
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Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
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I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'
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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.
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Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.
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Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.
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