If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

Own the room. 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. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.