 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. Oh yeah, I`m about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.
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Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there`s always a level of high quality.
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I started out in summer stock, and that`s really what I prefer.
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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.
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I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
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I like to know where I`m going to be at seven o`clock.
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I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.
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When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.
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And, I`d never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
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That was a pretty fabulous set... it does transport you. I remember that it didn`t feel like a set, I really felt like I was in outer space.
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I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don`t get in film.
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I think probably, the makeup artists don`t really know how long it`s going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they`re going along.
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The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that`s always what I preferred doing.
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It`s really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
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I`m sick of the treadmill.
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I don`t like to cry in public, unless I`m getting paid for it.
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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.
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I don`t like sitting around sets - I don`t like the unpredictability of it.
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For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I`m going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.
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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.
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Of course it`s difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
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I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn`t hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that`s why, frankly, I never did it again.
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Trivia
Her former brother-in-law is actor and comic, Martin Short.
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Won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program in 1982 and 1983.
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1992 Tony Award for "My Favorite Year"
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Ex-sister-in-law of Nancy Dolman.
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Was a member of the legendary Toronto production of Godspell, along with Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Victor Garber and musical director Paul Shaffer.
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Former member of Toronto Second City.
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According to weekly Variety she has been cast as Frau Brucher in the Broadway bound Young Frankenstein 2007.
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Won Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "My Favorite Year." Subsequently, she has twice been nominated in the same category: in 1997 for a reviival of "Candide" and in 2002 for playing Aunt Eller in a revival of "Oklahoma!"
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Wrote/Performed in critically acclaimed one-woman show in Los Angeles and New York entitled "Nude, Nude, Totally Nude".
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Has two sons - Joe (b. 1983) and Jack (b. 1981)
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Andrea Martin is of Armenian descent - her grandfather's last name was Papazian when he immigrated in the early 1900s from Ottoman Turkey. When he settled his family in Maine, he changed the last name from Papazian to Martin.
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