“ There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil. ”
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein
I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.