Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity.

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.