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Joan Rivers is a very wise la...

Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says "yes" to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I took many notes, more than ...

I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I grew up with "Follies." I s...

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 18 quotes

I wish somebody would just gi...

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 18 quotes

I read a lot of those Single ...

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 18 quotes

It's more interesting to put ...

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

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I've always wanted to do some...

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

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I always tend to say "no" to ...

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 18 quotes

I had two chances to fail [wo...

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."

Charles Busch 18 quotes

The story of Judith. But one ...

The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] d...

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

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I'm writing the book to a chi...

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 18 quotes

I saw "Follies" again at thir...

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

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I was very briefly under cont...

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.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I've always wanted to do somet...

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

Charles Busch 18 quotes

I wish somebody would just giv...

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 18 quotes

I took many notes, more than u...

I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

The story of Judith. But one o...

The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians.

Charles Busch 18 quotes

There's a real fantasy quotien...

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 18 quotes

I had two chances to fail [wor...

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was 'too juvenile.' The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, 'Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt.'I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive 'handling' me, and he said, 'I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk.' Well, how do you answer that? I said, 'Excuse me just a moment, I've go

Charles Busch 18 quotes

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