Follies Thirty Quotes by Charles Busch

I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things…

— Charles Busch

I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes.…

— Charles Busch

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

— Charles Busch

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never…

— Charles Busch

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm…

— Charles Busch

The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past…

— Charles Busch

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

— Charles Busch

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't…

— Charles Busch

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

— Charles Busch

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through…

— Charles Busch

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general…

— Charles Busch