26 Quotes by Mario Cantone

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    I know, it’s weird that I’ve never done a musical. I turned down two of them. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘The Producers.’ I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

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    In the ’70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, ‘See. This is why, we told you.’ And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

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    I won’t do reality. That is done. And I don’t want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

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    Look, you’re either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

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    I love animation, I really do, but I don’t do it for the children.

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    Our black president can’t say that he’s for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

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    I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'

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