"You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it."

"Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it."

"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."

"It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus."

"The greatest journey starts when every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."