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, ther…

- Linda Lavin

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

- Linda Lavin

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

- Linda Lavin

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in …

- Linda Lavin

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 po…

- Linda Lavin

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…

- Linda Lavin

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 w…

- 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

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. …

- Linda Lavin