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

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

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.

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

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.