Linda Lavin famous quotes

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It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
-- Linda Lavin

#Dancing #Singing #Acting
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
-- Linda Lavin

#Writing #Play #Long
So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.
-- Linda Lavin

#Summer #New York #Drama
My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
-- Linda Lavin

#Mother #Voice #Giving
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
-- Linda Lavin

#Character #Giving #Cameras
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
-- Linda Lavin

#People #Holocaust #Genocide
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
-- Linda Lavin

#Dream #Quiet People #Piano
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
-- Linda Lavin

#Mother #Firefighter #Want
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
-- Linda Lavin

#Thinking #Talking #Auditions
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
-- Linda Lavin

#America #Parent #Singing

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