Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Kelly Bishop.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Carole "Kelly" Bishop is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls and as Marjorie Houseman, the mother of Jennifer Grey's Frances "Baby" Houseman in the film Dirty Dancing. Bishop originated the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. She also starred as Fanny Flowers in the ABC Family short-lived comedy-drama series Bunheads.
There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!
It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.
As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.
I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.
I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.
I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.
One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.