Linda Lavin quotes

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. View quote
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin - Image
Photo: Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Actress
Born: October 15, 1937
Died: December 29, 2024
Quotes count: 9