"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all."
"I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say."
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"I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it."
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"When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything."
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