I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.