When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.