There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me. — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian. — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is - I literally… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me. — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
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,… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
