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… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am. — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
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… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
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… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
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… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
