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Donna Lynne Champlin

I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

Phyllida Lloyd is probably the sweetest person on the planet.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

Acting I never worried about, but it’s so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I would have never thought in a million years.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is – I literally felt like I was on another planet.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It’s so all-encompassing and exhausting. I’m not saying that’s not some women, but it’s just not all of us.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

I’ve had a lot of therapy in my life.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

I’ve become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

I think with ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It’s miraculous. You look at ‘1776,’ it’s a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at ‘Hamilton,’ and it’s just the faces of America.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there’s no one to blame. You can’t blame a person who’s mentally ill, because they didn’t ask for it! There’s no choice to it.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

Not a lot of people know it, but I don’t have any qualms about saying it – there’s a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

When Melissa McCarthy came out with ‘Bridesmaids,’ all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

Donna Lynne Champlin

One of the most amazing things about ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think ‘Glee’ had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.

– Donna Lynne Champlin

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