Being Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Donna Lynne Champlin

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

— 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…

— Donna Lynne Champlin