I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written. Lainie Kazan More Quotes by Lainie Kazan More Quotes From Lainie Kazan The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want. Lainie Kazan necks house men I have a rich, full, textured life. Lainie Kazan rich Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend! Lainie Kazan jazz singers proud I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life. Lainie Kazan artist mother father I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good. Lainie Kazan feel good feel-good exercise I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it. Lainie Kazan mouth i-am me horse I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland. Lainie Kazan parents down theatre girl
