24 Quotes by 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 me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

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.

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

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 go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

I was at a point in my life where I wanted to give back rather than look behind me to see who was encroaching and what could I get.

Welcome to the Plush Room, welcome to me, ... The Song Remembers When.

It was time to find a way to subsidize the arts. To give something back. I wanted to teach, I wanted to give master classes and I wanted to direct.

The verdicts will never bring my brother back. But perhaps now the healing can begin.