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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/my-mother-gave-me-singing-lessons-that-was-totally-painful-because-i/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

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## More by Linda Lavin

> [It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/it-was-always-acting-singing-and-dancing-that-i-loved-not-the-horror/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/i-didn-t-want-to-do-anything-my-mother-wanted-me-to-do-so-surely-i/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/thank-god-that-i-am-not-over-75-so-that-james-earl-jones-knows-who/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/once-you-have-the-pattern-of-life-of-this-person-the-choreography-so/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/rose-was-sexy-it-was-my-fantasy-about-her-she-accomplished-so-much/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/my-mother-gave-me-singing-lessons-that-was-totally-painful-because-i/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/the-play-is-one-of-the-very-few-pieces-of-great-dramatic-and-comic/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/it-was-always-acting-singing-and-dancing-that-i-loved/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/making-a-film-of-a-work-you-ve-played-for-six-weeks-gives-you/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/so-i-majored-in-drama-did-all-the-plays-that-were-possible-to-do/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/we-give-you-this-story-it-is-for-the-audience-to-be-moved-and-gut/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/we-do-a-lot-of-shows-for-young-people-who-have-probably-never-been-to/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/talking-about-auditions-you-never-know-what-anyone-else-is-thinking/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/i-d-forget-the-piece-just-before-i-went-out-to-do-the-concerto-the/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

> [The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-lavin/the-story-about-me-apocryphal-or-not-is-that-i-could-sing-before-i/)

[Linda Lavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-lavin/)

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