Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin
Linda Lavinis an American singer and actress. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her stage performances, both on Broadway and Off-Broadway...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth15 October 1937
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
remembers song welcome
Welcome to the Plush Room, welcome to me, ... The Song Remembers When.
audience cry feeling four gut moved three
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.
fulfilling gave panic piece somebody
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.
canvas discovery eight feeling life pattern present process underneath
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.
mother power talking taught
He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.
classes master subsidize time
It was time to find a way to subsidize the arts. To give something back. I wanted to teach, I wanted to give master classes and I wanted to direct.
bring brother guilty healing start verdict
The verdict of guilty will never bring my brother back, but we can start the healing process.
dancing singing acting
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
dream quiet-people piano
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.
character giving six
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.
summer new-york drama
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.
writing play giving
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.
thank-god hell knows
Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.
thinking talking auditions
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.