Love Quote by Loretta Swit

What reads like breezy showbiz confidence is really a small manifesto about what performance is for: not ego, but communion. Loretta Swit’s “no anxiety at all” lands less as a literal claim than as a practiced refusal to center fear. Actors are supposed to be nervous; that’s the mythology. Swit flips it. The thrill isn’t surviving the stage, it’s using it as a vehicle to move with other people through something risky: feeling.

“Take this journey with the audience” is the tell. Journey is therapy language and travel language at once, suggesting an experience that’s structured but not fully controllable. She’s not promising perfection; she’s promising presence. The audience isn’t a jury, it’s a co-pilot. That’s a quietly radical reframe in an industry that trains performers to chase approval. Her “we all have a ball with it” sounds light, almost vaudevillian, but she immediately complicates it: “even if we’re crying.” The fun isn’t the absence of pain; it’s the permission to access it safely, together.

Context matters: Swit comes out of a tradition of live craft and long-running character work (the kind that demands stamina, repetition, and deep control). This quote reads like the voice of someone who’s crossed the line from proving herself to trusting the work. The subtext is veteran knowledge: the stage doesn’t eliminate sadness; it metabolizes it into something shared, and that alchemy is the whole point.