Didi Conn quotes

“I love working in the theater.”
-- Didi Conn

#Theater Quotes

“When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.”
-- Didi Conn

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“When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.”
-- Didi Conn

Source : "I was the 'queen of denial' on autism" by Didi Conn, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2009.

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“My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.”
-- Didi Conn

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“I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.”
-- Didi Conn

Source : "I was the 'queen of denial' on autism" by Didi Conn, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2009.

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“[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.”
-- Didi Conn

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“There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.”

“My first wife was a theater person.”

“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”

“Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.”

“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

“I have a passion to do theater.”

Source : "Amy Irving Is Over Being an Ingenue". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2009.

“My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.”

“The theater is magical and addictive.”

“I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live #‎ theater , blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.”

“I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.”