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Charles Busch

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[Wikipedia] Charles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and drag queen, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote and starred in his early plays off-off-Broadway beginning in 1978, generally in drag roles, and also acted in the wor

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…

Decided

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

Blank

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

Interesting

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I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production…

Courses

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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…

Average

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

Assyrians

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

Auschwitz

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

Age

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There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the…

Code

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

Believer

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

Book

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

Ancient

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I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based…

Couple

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I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

Girl

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I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

Appreciation

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Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to…

Ambition

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I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the…

Animated

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