Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right. Blythe Danner More Quotes by Blythe Danner More Quotes From Blythe Danner Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it. Blythe Danner acting Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. Blythe Danner mother sweet children Actors are very generous. Blythe Danner generous actors Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air. Blythe Danner grandparent air children I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Blythe Danner dream night two I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it. Blythe Danner going-home business home forget I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too. Blythe Danner live feel place you I loved the first Christmas I had in England. Blythe Danner loved first england christmas I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was. Blythe Danner never back husband work I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows. Blythe Danner career great always kind I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching! Blythe Danner day work love people My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. Blythe Danner singer parents family brother