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• ‟ People tend to remember my performances, not me.

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• ‟ I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

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• ‟ The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

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• ‟ I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

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• ‟ I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.

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