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Joanne Woodward says she regrets never becoming a superstar and at times has even resented husband Paul Newman because of his celebrity status. Despite great respect in her profession, Woodward told Lear’s magazine: “I would have liked a bigger career. I would have liked to be a major star.” Woodward says that she took the traditional wifely role by having “one baby after another” and that she thought “there must be something wrong with me for wanting to be more than a wife and mistress” to Newman. “I felt an enormous rivalry with Paul, although I wouldn’t admit it to myself. In truth, I was always uncomfortable that Paul was so much bigger than I was. Uncomfortable and even angry because he was living my fantasy, being what I had always wanted to be--a star.”