Michael Musto Quotations

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

We've been in business in Woburn since 1989 (at previous locations on New Boston Street and then Holton Street), and we've made an investment in this building,

He's always come off like a nice uncle who knows things,

He was never a black-and-white embodiment of someone searching for ideals, but was human and fallible.

A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an inside show business open secret.

As a Voice columnist, I can set my own hours, working out of my home, but also stopping by the office every day to interact with actual humans.

I've written a lot of negative stuff against her. I came to bury her and I've ended up praising her.

There's tremendous freedom, which is quite liberating and cathartic, and I've yet to find it anywhere else. I might even geta gold watch.

Once I got out of school, I sent my clippings around and nabbed some freelance writing work while holding down full-time office jobs.

I kinda float through a nightclub, and that causes people to come up and spill their guts to me.

In high school, in addition to appearing in shows, I wrote for the school paper, and at Columbia I was the theater critic for the Columbia Spectator.

I haven't missed a week. It's like God has sprinkled us with a taste of pre-Giuliani nightlife.

In fact, in the old days, I used to be the only one screaming at people like Rosie O'Donnell, but now everyone's getting into the act.

A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!

the devil's rejects, even worse than baby sitters who throw the kids against the wall, if not quite as awful as scummy, cheating menfolk.