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" Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it. "
Blythe Danner
Acting
Really
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them. "
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" 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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" 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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Favorite
He
" I loved the first Christmas I had in England. "
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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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