Lavin, Linda Filmography

• A Short History of Decay (2013)
• Wanderlust (2012)
• The 66th Annual Tony Awards (2012)
• The 78th Annual Drama League Awards (2012)
• The 76th Annual Drama League Awards (2010)
• The Back-up Plan (2010)
• Maggie Tales (2010)
• The 64th Annual Tony Awards (2010)
• Mr. Prince (2009)
• TV's 50 Funniest Catch Phrases (2009)
• At Home in Utopia (2008)
• Beneath the Airlie Oak (2008)
• At Home in Utopia (2008)
• The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch (2005)
• Great Women of Television Comedy (2003)
• CBS at 75 (2003)
• Collected Stories (2002)
• The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001)
• Best Friends for Life (1998)
• Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
• The Ring (1996)
• For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal (1996)
• Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
• A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995)
• The 48th Annual Tony Awards (1994)
• Whitewash (1994)
• In a New Light: A Call to Action in the War Against AIDS (1992)
• Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
• The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990)
• I Want to Go Home (1989)
• See You in the Morning (1989)
• The 42nd Annual Tony Awards (1988)
• A Place to Call Home (1987)
• Lena: My 100 Children (1987)
• The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987)
• A Place to Call Home (1987)
• Maricela (1986)
• The 37th Annual Emmy Awards (1985)
• Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• The 36th Annual Emmy Awards (1984)
• The 36th Annual Emmy Awards (1984)
• Another Woman's Child (1983)
• The Best of Everything (1983)
• Another Woman's Child (1983)
• Night of 100 Stars (1982)
• Lily for President? (1982)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1981)
• Linda in Wonderland (1980)
• The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980)
• CBS All American Thanksgiving Day Parade (1980)
• The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980)
• The 36th Annual Golden Globes Awards (1979)
• The 31st Annual Emmy Awards (1979)
• The 36th Annual Golden Globes Awards (1979)
• The Hal Linden Special (1979)
• Like Mom, Like Me (1978)
• The 30th Annual Emmy Awards (1978)
• The John Davidson Christmas Show (1978)
• The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978)
• CBS: On the Air (1978)
• Battle of the Network Stars II (1977)
• The Television Critics Circle Awards (1977)
• Final Warning (1977)
• The Morning After (1974)
• Jerry (1974)
• A World of Love (1970)
• Alan King and His Buddy (1969)
• The Alan King Show (1969)
• Comedy Is King (1968)
• Damn Yankees! (1967)

Famous quotes by Linda Lavin:

"The verdicts will never bring my brother back. But perhaps now the healing can begin."

"The verdict of guilty will never bring my brother back, but we can start the healing process."

"Welcome to the Plush Room, welcome to me, ... The Song Remembers When."

"Two Lost Souls."

"The Song Remembers When"

"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."

"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."

"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."

"We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about."

"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."

"Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character."

"Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was."

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

"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."

"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."

"The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America."

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

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