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Estelle Parsons

"The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors."

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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Donna Grant

"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."

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Estelle Parsons
"The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors."

Actor

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Estelle Parsons
"But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different."

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Estelle Parsons
"In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience."

Character

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Estelle Parsons
"When I see what I want, I do it."

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Estelle Parsons
"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."

Art

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Estelle Parsons
"We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it."

Theatre

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Estelle Parsons
"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."

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Estelle Parsons
"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."

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Estelle Parsons
"I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people."

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Estelle Parsons
"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."

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