I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.


Holding on to the air: an autobiography (ed. Summit Press, 1990)


I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted...

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted...

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted...

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted...