I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.