I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

The audience here seems a lot more relaxed, a lot more in the mood just to have a great time.

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.