Art & Creativity Quote by Betty Buckley

A lot gets smuggled into that clean, almost disarmingly simple pairing: music and horses. For Betty Buckley, an actress whose identity is inseparable from the musical theater canon, “music” isn’t a hobby so much as a home base. It implies discipline (eight shows a week is athletic), devotion, and a lifelong practice of feeling on demand. By calling it a “great love,” she frames the work not as ambition or careerism, but as attachment - the kind that survives bad reviews, vocal fatigue, and the churn of the industry.

“Horses,” though, is the tell. It’s the non-theater love that signals escape from performance culture and its relentless social noise. Horses require presence; they don’t care about your brand, your résumé, or your last opening night. In celebrity language, this is a subtle power move: she’s refusing to let her public identity swallow her private self. The subtext is balance, but not the corporate kind. It’s a claim that her life contains a second arena where she’s accountable to something real, physical, and famously un-fakeable.

The line also works because it’s a controlled act of self-mythmaking. Music suggests emotional expression; horses suggest freedom and risk. Together they sketch Buckley as both artist and rider: someone who can harness huge forces without pretending to tame them. For an actress, that’s not just personal trivia. It’s an origin story, a way of saying the fuel behind the voice isn’t fame - it’s devotion and motion.