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Betty Buckley Biography

Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American stage, film, and television actress and singer. She starred from 1977 to 1981 on the ABC series Eight Is Enough, before going on to win the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats. The same year she appeared as Dixie in the Academy Award nominated film Tender Mercies. Her other musical roles include playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard from 1994 to 1996, in both London and New York, receiving an Olivier Award nomination. She is a 2012 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee.

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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Currently, Men, Nineteen, Teacher, Trained, Years

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Culture, Feelings, Identify, People, Understand, Using

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Bridges, Gift, Give, Giving, Help, Rallying Point

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer
actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

Actors, Art, Back, Broadway, Expanded, Musical

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Able, Changes, Long, Older, Voice

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Different, Pain, Same, Stories

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Giving, Sharing, Teacher, Teachers, Technique

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

Focus, Capacity, Performances, Good, Concentrate

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Acres, Considered, Littles, Ranch, Texas

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Feminist, Feminists, Ifs, Rest, Semantics

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

Class, Movement, Think, Thinking, Unable, White

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Corny, Maintenance, Professional, Singer, Singers

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Come, Love, Mary, Song, Towns, Two

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

Feminism, Feminist, Gratitude, History, Opportunities, Opportunity

My two great loves are music and horses.

Great Love, Horse, Horses, Loves, Music, Two

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

Discover, Girl, Loud, Loud Voices, Purpose, Voices