"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do"
- Linda Lavin
About this Quote
This quote by Linda Lavin talks to the power of storytelling. She acknowledges that the story is for the audience to be moved and gut-wrenched, not for the writer. She is saying that although she is the one telling the story, she is not unsusceptible to the emotions that feature it. She is still impacted by the story, and typically weeps 3 or 4 times a night. This quote speaks with the power of storytelling and how it can move people, even the writer. It is a reminder that stories can be powerful and can stimulate strong emotions in those who inform them, in addition to those who listen. It is a reminder that stories can be a powerful tool for getting in touch with others and developing empathy.
This quote is written / told by Linda Lavin somewhere between October 15, 1937 and today. She was a famous Actress from USA.
The author also have 12 other quotes.
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"
"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"
