Andrea Martin quotes:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

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.

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.

I'm sick of the treadmill.