Quotes About Performance

I've played some great ladies. Mame. Agnes Gooch in 'Mame,' when I started out in the '60s... it's a beautiful role.

You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with.

It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.

Yeah, I'm big into Drake as a lot of lads are. I've been to a few of his concerts and I usually have him playing on the way to games.

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of 'My Fair Lady.'

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

Good films and good performances will help you go further in your career. You can't get too far by just choosing leading lady roles.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I did a benefit one night at Carnegie Hall with Bono and Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright.

I would totally do a Madonna or Lady Gaga video.

I would love to read Lady Gaga and Tonya Harding.

I've been to every Lady Gaga concert.