Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.