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“It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.” quote by Charles Busch — Download Open image

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

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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…

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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 of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to…

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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 the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So,…

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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 Thalberg building.

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

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

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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 yourself, through…

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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 you general…

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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 on every…

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