Quotes by Linda Lavin - Page 1

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Acting
Dancing
Singing
Always Acting Loved
Loved
Singing Always Acting
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Auditions
Talking
Thinking
Anyone Else
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Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Hell
Knows
Thank God
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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 / Singer
Firefighter
Mother
Want
Surely
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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 / Singer
Fulfilling
Panic
Pleasure
Concerto
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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.
Linda Lavin / Singer
America
Bedroom
Bless
God Bless
One Day
Parent
Singing
Standing
God Me Day
Crib
Spoke
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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 / Singer
Genocide
Holocaust
People
Theater
Young People
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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.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Behavior
Cameras
Character
Giving
Intimate
Life Time Work
By The Time
Camera
Life Work Time
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Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Accomplished
Entertainment
Fantasy
Prepared
Background
Terms
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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.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Giving
Lessons
Mother
Painful
Voice
Me Voice Singing
Singing Lessons
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We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Cry
Moved
Gut
Real Feeling
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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.
Linda Lavin / Singer
New York
Capacity
Drama
Summer
Backstage
Production
Plays
Skated
Summers
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Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Canvas
Choreography
Churning
Discovery
Eight
Pattern
Underneath
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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.
Linda Lavin / Singer
Comic
Dramatic
Facets
Long
Play
Writing
Time Power Great
Drawn
Explore
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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 / Singer
Dream
Quiet People
Dancing
Piano
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