Blythe Danner Quotes

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• We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future…
• You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to…
• Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved…
• Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
• I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
• I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
• I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
• I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on…
• I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation…
• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard…
• I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific…
• It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
• Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
• Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but…
• Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be…
• Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back.…
• You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your…
• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll…
• Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

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