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People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.
Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
I love being with someone, taking care of someone.
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.
I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
Acting takes so much energy.
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
