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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.

Blythe Danner

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Blythe Danner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 3
Actress
Environmentalist
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Going
Sells
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You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.
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Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to 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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I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
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I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
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Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.
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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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