Andrea Martin Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

All the theatre parodies were instigated by me, but then we wrote them together.

And then I was cast immediately. . . . I just finished doing The Rose Tattoo, and I researched that for about two years.

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

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.

But I like going in knowing my lines, knowing as much about the history as I can.

But my love has always been New York.

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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't grow up watching TV. I just fantasized in my attic about Broadway shows.

I don't know if I get nervous, but I certainly invest 100% in every audition, so there is a certain level of anxiety or perfectionism.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

I have an affinity for eggplant.

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

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

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

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 was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn't hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that's why, frankly, I never did it again.

I went to Italy, I took Italian classes.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

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

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

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

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

So my experience was in theatre. I had a background in theatre - I loved theatre.

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.

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.

Then I went to L.A., where I lived for 18 years, and I got into the world of animation. And then I was asked to do those.

There's something very buoyant for an actor to be in a set that's another world - it does help you with the characterization. You do feel otherworldly as you're doing it.

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

Trivia

Andrea Martin has a degree from Emerson College in Boston, MA.

Andrea Martin wrote and performed in her own one-woman show titled Nude, Nude, Totally Nude. The show was staged in both in Los Angeles and New York.

Andrea Martin is 5'4" (1.63 m) tall.

Andrea Martin is a former member of Second City Toronto.

Andrea Martin's first film role was in a little known Canadian "slasher" movie called Black Christmas (1974), where she played a bookish sorority sister named "Phyllis".

She played Aunt Voula in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."