Blythe Danner Quotes

• Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Acting

• I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Favorite

• I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

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  Tags in Think, Crazy

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Time

• I’ve always just adored music. It’s my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. 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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  Tags in Music

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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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Avoid, Image

• 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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  Topics in Children

• Actors are very generous.

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• I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor

• I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

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  Tags in Favorite

• 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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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Time

• Maybe subconsciously I’ve kept activism separate from acting because it’s important to me in a more profound way.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting, Activism

• 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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• I’ve been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn’t really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actress

• It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School

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  I’ve kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

   

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  Topics in Business

• 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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  Topics in Experience

• Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples’ lives, and sometimes that’s very gratifying. But still, there’s this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Affect

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stage

Blythe Danner (19)

Birth:	3rd February, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Blythe Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an American actress. She is known for her portrayal as Will Truman's mother, Marilyn, in the sitcom Will & Grace and for her role in the 2000 comedy hit Meet the Parents, and its sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. A graduate of Bard College, Danner's first roles included the 1967 musical Mata Hari, and the 1968 off-Broadway production, Summertree. She won a Best Supporting Actress Tony playing a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free. In 2005, she was nominated for three Emmy Awards: for her work on Will & Grace, Huff and Back When We Were Grownups. In 2006, Danner was awarded an inaugural Katharine Hepburn Medal by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center.

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