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> [What I miss about the theater is the live experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/what-i-miss-about-the-theater-is-the-live-experience/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

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## More by Donna Lynne Champlin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/acting-i-never-worried-about-but-it-s-so-strange-that-on-camera-work/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/with-shows-with-plus-sized-characters-there-are-all-of-these-lines-of/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/since-i-play-piano-i-can-play-the-right-hand-on-the-accordion-no/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/the-toughest-thing-for-me-is-doing-on-camera-stuff-as-a-comedian/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is - I literally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/logistically-working-on-a-television-show-and-hitting-your-mark-and/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/as-an-actor-you-do-feel-very-powerless-you-are-at-the-whim-of-the/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/the-schedule-on-tv-is-crazy-you-could-not-work-for-two-days-but-then/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/it-s-very-rare-for-me-to-come-across-a-script-for-nymf-that-is-truly/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/the-difficult-thing-with-mental-illness-is-that-there-s-no-one-to/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/there-s-pre-production-and-the-second-part-is-when-you-start/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/my-brother-mike-is-the-hardest-working-person-i-know/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/not-a-lot-of-people-know-it-but-i-don-t-have-any-qualms-about-saying/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/i-was-a-judge-for-the-2014-nymf-season-i-ve-done-it-for-a-few-years/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/when-you-are-in-the-musical-theater-and-you-are-someone-who-looks/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynne-champlin/when-melissa-mccarthy-came-out-with-bridesmaids-all-of-a-sudden-you/)

[Donna Lynne Champlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynne-champlin/)

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