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The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

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.

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.