I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.