Quotes by Blythe Danner

About Blythe Danner:

Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress of film, television, and stage. She is known for the television role of Marilyn Truman, mother of title character Will, in the sitcom Will & Grace, and for co-starring opposite Robert De Niro in the three Meet the Parents franchise films. She is also a Tony Award-winning stage actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.
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Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.

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I am always happiest in an ensemble.

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When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky.

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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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My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make...

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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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My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

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I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got marr...

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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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That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

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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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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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I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

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I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

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Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production...

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My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'

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

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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 travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!

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Author Bio

  • NameBlythe Danner
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornFebruary 3, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor