You can play Mercutio next month in the 'Merchant of Venice.'" "No, I want to be Shylock.

I love character parts.

I don't see why you have to pick out these little tame scenes when we could have Lear and Edgar and the Fool on the heath, or Dick the Third or Macbeth.

I'd play any of those for you.

We used to have plays back home just amongst us girls, and I was always the leading heavy.