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I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

- Bill Irwin
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The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.

What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn't brought to them via the spoken word. It's from a different place; it's a different quality of laughter.

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play.

Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.

It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.

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I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.