Something is guiding my career; I don't know what it is. When I look back at my career, I call myself the most lucky actor in the world. It is all I have ever done. I do master classes, and I tell people not to use me as an example. I do not know anyone like me - not to brag - it is just very unusual.

I kind of feel the career chose me. My motto has always been, 'Go where I'm wanted.'

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.