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" I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian. "

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" I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film. "

" I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope. "

" And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. "

" It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things. "

" Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. "

" I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. "

Unpredictability

" But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people. "

" The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing. "

" Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do. "

" Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. "

" When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials. "

" I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along. "

" I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it. "

" Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality. "

" I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer. "

" I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. "

" Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics. "

" I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock. "