That's Probably The Biggest Secret

One Time, Many, Many Years Ago, I Had The Opportunity To Dye My Hair Brunette For A Film. And The Day I Walked Out Of The Hotel Where I Had It Done, I Walked Out Onto The Street And Realized People Looked Me In The Eye And Greeted Me Good Morning. I'd Never Had That Experience Before! And I Began To Notice That A Brunette Is Treated As An Affable Human Being. Later, When I Dyed My Hair For Lois Riley Blonde, And Then Alice Ward Blonde, People Come Right Up To You, They Touch You On The Arm, They Ask You How You're Doing. Men And Women Both! Blondes Have More Fun.

You Can't Really Gauge The Difficulties Of Television. There's Difficulties And Joys That Happen With An Amazing, Great Team, When One Is Working. Television Can Be A Very Frustrating Job For Almost Anybody Working In Television, Because You're Shooting Episodically, And You Don't Know One Scene From The Next, And Maybe They Change Around.

I Think This Notion Of Acting And Glamour Is Getting In Everybody's Way.

You Have This Certain About Of Responsibility To Play A Fictitious Character And You Have A Script That's Guiding You And The Other Information Of The Custom Department's Choices, And The Set Department, "where Are You," And All Those Other Pieces Of Information But You Have To Cull From Your Imagination The Answer To All The Unasked Questions. And With A Real Person, There's Someone To Get That Information From, Perhaps.

There Is A Wealth Of Knowledge To Be Understood From Others' Work, Don't Get Me Wrong, And When I Do Stumble Upon Others' Work, It's Not Lost On Me.