Estelle Parsons quotes:

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.