I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.