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Linda Lavin

"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."

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"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."

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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."

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"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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"I loved my mother, she's a good girl."

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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

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"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse."

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"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York."

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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."

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"I punched my mother out once."

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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 power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."

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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 whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."

Work

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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."

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Linda Lavin
"Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was."

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Linda Lavin
"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."

Feelings

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Linda Lavin
"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."

People

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Linda Lavin
"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."

Mother

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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."

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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 singing God Bless America."

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Linda Lavin
"It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved."

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