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Linda Lavin Biography

Singer

Linda Lavin, born on October 15, 1937, is an American singer. Her musical career began in the 1950s, and she is known for her distinctive voice and diverse musical style.

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“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.”

Giving Character Film Week Fronts Behavior Six Cameras Intimate

Author: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.”

Want Giving Wanted Used Mother Voice Lessons Singing Painful

Author: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.”

Play School Order Stage New York Drama Summer Capacity Productions Looking For Work

Author: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.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author: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.”

Stories America Parent One Day Singing Standing Spokes Bless Bedroom God Bless God Bless America

Author:Linda Lavin

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

Knows Hell Thank God

Author:Linda Lavin

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

Acting Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing Singing Dancing

Author:Linda Lavin

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

Thinking Knows Talking Auditions

Author: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.”

Want Wanted Mother Firefighter

Author: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. 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.”

People Dream Forget Pleasure Acting Audience Pieces Fronts Horror Quiet Singing Dancing Piano Performing Panic Fulfilling Singing And Dancing Quiet People

Author: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 Knows Shows Young Theater Genocide Holocaust

Author:Linda Lavin

About the Author

Born: October 15, 1937
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 11

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