Blythe Danner quotes Her role in the off-Broadway play Summertree Born: 02/03/1943 Country: usa

• Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it. (Blythe Danner) [life]
• Actors are very generous. (Blythe Danner) [actors]
• Barbra, I had the good fortune of being directed by several years ago in Prince Of Tides. She is incredibly generous. There is something about having an ear like hers to the musicality, it just leaves her naturally to wonderful directing as in acting. (Blythe Danner) [fortune/being]
• Both my brother and I were very active. I was captain of the high school swimming team. (Blythe Danner) [captain/high/school/team]
• Bruce and I had an apartment in New York that we kept no matter where our work took us, but we've let it go now. Bruce is the one who found this house. (Blythe Danner) [matter]
• Coming out of the Depression the way I did, you want to do something that matters. (Blythe Danner) [depression]
• Doing a TV series is quite a commitment. You don't know if you'll be on for 13 weeks or five years. If the show doesn't go, however, we'll have learned a lot, and people will have seen my face. (Blythe Danner) [people/willpower/face]
• He was so busy that he didn't seek help for months-and by then his cancer was very advanced. I wish we had known more. My hope is this will bring oral cancer awareness to more Americans. (Blythe Danner) [help/wish/more/willpower]
• I did Butterflies Are Free eight times a week for a year. During that time, I did something to my voice. I have no range any more. (Blythe Danner) [time/more]
• I don't know what I'd do without Bruce. He's always such a help. We went to a party last night and I just couldn't get up this morning, so he's been taking care of the baby. (Blythe Danner) [help/night/morning/care]
• I feel a little guilty only being an actor. (Blythe Danner) [being]
• I feel good when I pat and hold somebody. (Blythe Danner)
• I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world. (Blythe Danner) [give]
• I forget when I'm working with her that she's my daughter. I remember once I actually went, Who is this girl? Oh, my, this is my daughter. It's a joy to work with her. (Blythe Danner) [forget/remember/joy]
• I get a little bit nutty sometimes. (Blythe Danner)
• I had a grandfather who was Pennsylvania Dutch, and I went to Quaker school, and that makes one very aware of the earth. (Blythe Danner) [grandfather/school]
• I like Billy Wilder a lot. (Blythe Danner)
• I love playing one of Pinter's ladies. I've never felt more womanly in my life. This is the first time I've done a play where I can't wait to get to the theatre to escape into the skin of a woman who I am not. (Blythe Danner) [love/more/life/time]
• I love to cook, but sometimes we eat at 10:00 P.M.! (Blythe Danner) [love]
• I love to garden. I haven't had time to do much of it yet. We brought some furniture out from the New York apartment, but we have to buy a lot too. I'd like the house to look like New England. (Blythe Danner) [love/garden/time/furniture]
• I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Blythe Danner) [night]
• I started studying violin and studied it tor three years. I also played piano. (Blythe Danner)
• I think after the election we've been so depressed and so upset, we have very little to look forward to in a way. (Blythe Danner) [think/look]
• I think I have a lot of crazy layers. (Blythe Danner) [think/crazy]
• I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. (Blythe Danner) [think/time/being]
• 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. (Blythe Danner) [women]
• I was attracted to Gwyneth from a school friend who was British. I was 6 years old and she was very eccentric and had a beautiful English accent and when the time came, I just named Gwyneth after that. I got a lot of guff for naming her Gwyneth. (Blythe Danner) [school/english/time]
• I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. (Blythe Danner) [time/think/generation/more]
• I went door to door, knocking, and I got lots of right-wing people-very hostile-who said,'Why should I bother to do that? It's time consuming. I can't waste my time. (Blythe Danner) [time/waste/time]
• I went to college for four years and got my degree in drama. I had known I wanted to act, but my parents wanted me to go to college first. (Blythe Danner) [parents]
• I would pull up behind a car that was polluting, and I felt so holier-than-thou. I felt that I was in the real car and they were all in horse and buggies. (Blythe Danner) [car/car/horse]

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