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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

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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.

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But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

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It's through sheer will that I can sing.

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Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 6th, 1954

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