"We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they ar..." — Linda Lavin

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

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

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.

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.