Quotes by Donna Lynne Champlin - Page 1

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.
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Therapy
Life My Life Lot
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I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.
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Soprano
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My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.
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Mike
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Phyllida Lloyd is probably the sweetest person on the planet.
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Sweetest
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To this day, I am so grateful I grew up in Rochester, New York.
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Rochester
I Am Day Grateful
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The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.
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Comedian
Toughest
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Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.
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Opens
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I've become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.
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Accustomed
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It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.
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Regret
Take A Chance
Twenties
Forties
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There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.
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Learning Curve
Rehearsal
Curve
Large
Pre-Production
Second
Start
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Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.
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Illness
Mental Illness
Qualms
Family People Know
Runs
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Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons that makes me crazy.
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Buttons
Accordion
Right Hand
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I don't usually see my type for on-camera stuff as a series regular. Normally, my type is the janitor, the secretary, the cop, or the nurse.
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Cop
Janitor
Secretary
Normally
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If I could say anything to anybody out there thinking of creating their own content is to always, always, come from a place of authenticity.
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If I Could
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I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I've done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount of scripts and scores, and you rank them.
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Scripts
Rank
Scores
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The schedule on TV is crazy. You could not work for two days but then work from 4 A.M. to 1 A.M. the next day. I definitely wanted more family time.
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Family Work Time
Schedule
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The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.
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Sake
Make Up
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When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.
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Bending
Musical Theater
Yourself Your Me
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When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.
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Bridesmaids
Dimensions
Melissa
Pivotal
Plot
Mccarthy
Sudden
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Acting I never worried about, but it's so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I would have never thought in a million years.
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Worried
Million Years
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Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is - I literally felt like I was on another planet.
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Hitting
Leaning
Television Show
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The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.
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Blame
Ill
Mental Illness
Difficult Thing
No Choice
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My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.
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Balloons
Etc
Parades
Selling
First Job
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It's very rare for me to come across a script for NYMF that is truly its own animal. That's really what appealed to me about 'Valueville.' I still have my notes from when I first read it.
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Notes
Appealed
Rare
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No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.
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Accomplished
Banging
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'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look.
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Alternatives
Narrative
Hating
Women Look Yourself
Paula
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As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.
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Casting
Powerless
Whim
Agent
Audition
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It's very limited what women who look like me can do on television. You don't often see 'my type' on television unless she's a sidekick - certainly not a three-dimensional series regular who is pertinent to the plot.
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Pertinent
Plot
Sidekick
Women Look Me
Three-Dimensional
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One of the most amazing things about 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think 'Glee' had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.
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Amazing Things
Glee
Most Amazing
Covers
Forcing
Pull
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It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
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Austen
Jane
Poetic
Gotta
Note
Rein
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A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.
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Height
Musical
Posh
Spoken Word
Visceral
Emotions
Reach
Sing
Spoken
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I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.
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Casting
Chicks
Faces
Miraculous
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As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I'm usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people's lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at 'Wicked.'
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Leaving
Lottery
Nerd
Wicked
Everyone Else
Herd
Member
Ticket
Wondering
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I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.
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Work Me Song
Cd
Finish
Picked
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If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.
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Blocked
Tomorrow
Forgive
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With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.
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Jealous
Diets
Exhausting
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About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
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Combination
Dollars
East Side
Gym
Janitor
New York City
Ran
Unfortunate
Me City New
Cafe
Duties
City Me New
Twenty
Upper
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I would absolutely love to do a revival of 'Bury the Dead' by Irwin Shaw on Broadway, but it would have to be Joe Calarco's version that we did Off-Broadway at The Transport Group in 2008. It was just one of those amazing shows that didn't run long enough and not nearly enough people got a chance to see.
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Broadway
Just One
Revival
Transport
Love Chance Amazing
Version
Nearly
Bury
Enough People
Joe
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