“But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lo...” — Andrea Martin Quote

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.

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

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

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

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.

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.