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Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

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
Work
Stay
Always
Stage
Full
Whether
Toes
Energy
Settle
Back
Settling
Hard
Fresh
Real
Air

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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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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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My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
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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 think I have a lot of crazy layers.
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Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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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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Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
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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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Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.
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Actors are very generous.
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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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It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
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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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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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