Christine Baranski

Work is salvation.

Work is absolutely grounding.

And now I have my Gilded Age family.

I love it.

I love all the actors on the Gilded Age.

So, you know, I'm going to take so much baggage up to heaven.

I have just...

bags full of memories and I don't have any one favorite thing but I do remember being flouncing around as Helena in a big wide hat and I was falling in love with Matthew then he he drove me on the motorcycle from Garden City Long Island where I was doing ghosts and then he'd take me to rehearsal to the public theater and I was I was in love with this very extraordinary guy and

I was so alive then that maybe... And that feeling of life and love infused my performance.

So Midsummer Night's Dream was very special.

I think you can still access it on YouTube, but...

It was magical.

And I was outside in the park performing Shakespeare.

And, of course, Helena has those marvelous plaintive monologues.

She suffers so, and she's so in love.

And I do think it's really one of my favorite performances.

Does that mean I have to start talking about my death, my inevitable?

I thought she could do anything.

She could do anything?

Except I don't think she could sing.