24 Quotes by Linda Lavin

The verdict of guilty will never bring my brother back, but we can start the healing process.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. 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.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

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.

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.

I didn’t want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn’t going to sing for her.