Linda Lavin

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

#going #her #i #me #mother

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. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#before #concerto #dream #else #forget

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#always #dancing #i #loved #singing

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

#by the time #camera #character #film #front

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#accomplished #alone #background #came #entertainment

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#anyone #auditions #else #know #never

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#america #bedroom #before #bless #could

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#been #before #holocaust #know #learning