Andrea Martin Quotes

I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn`t hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that`s why, frankly, I never did it again.

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

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.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I`m going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

I don`t like sitting around sets - I don`t like the unpredictability of it.

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.

I don`t like to cry in public, unless I`m getting paid for it.

I`m sick of the treadmill.

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

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.

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 love the comradery of doing theatre that you don`t get in film.

That was a pretty fabulous set... it does transport you. I remember that it didn`t feel like a set, I really felt like I was in outer space.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.