Mario Cantone Quotes & Sayings

“I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.”

“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?'”

“I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.”

“I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.”

“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?”

“Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.”

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

“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.”

“Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.”

“I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.”