Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
BLYTHE DANNERWhether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
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Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
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You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.
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Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
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I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
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I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
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Maybe subconsciously I’ve kept activism separate from acting because it’s important to me in a more profound way.
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We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
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I’m mostly a jazz fan and I’ve never really been into rock ‘n’ roll music.
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Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
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It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
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I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
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Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
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I’m not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what’s there.
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I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
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You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You’re on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
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