Charles Busch Quotes

#1. Judy Garland had this wonderful spontaneity that you just don't see anymore. She was such a witty, witty woman. And when you listen to her on ...

Charles Busch

#2. At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

Charles Busch

#3. There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

Harvey MacKay

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

Charles Busch

#5. And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Mary Tyler Moore

#6. I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

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

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#8. The pain... the pleasure... and the shame all drive me crazy.

Shungiku Nakamura

#9. It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.

Michael Crichton

#10. I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

Charles Busch

#11. 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 that I would've said "no" to before.

Charles Busch

#12. 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.

Charles Busch

#13. I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

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#14. I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

Charles Busch

#15. I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

Charles Busch

#16. I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

Charles Busch

#17. One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

Shirley Manson

#18. I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

Charles Busch

#19. He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

Wendell Berry

#20. 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 it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

Charles Busch

#21. So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt."
"Distracting, isn't it?

Lisa McMann