All About Andrea

Her role model (NBC Live Chat 11/16/98)
My mother. She is intelligent and strong - and independent!

Favorite play
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

Favorite opera
Carmen ("which I just saw.... with Pavarotti.)

Time capsule moment
1998: These days I am feeling closer to Miss Parker than ever before.

Likes about Miss Parker
I appreciate her sarcasm more than any of her qualities.

sees herself in future
[both] in front, or behind the cameras

Advice to dreamers
Follow your dream and don't ever give up.

Working with a costar you hardly see
The perfect marriage


How do you imagine, the very last scene of the very last Pretender? The two of you kissing? (Monaco Interview 2001)

"Ah, we’re riding off on a white horse, together somewhere.."
"...kissing on the Eiffel Tower"

Quotables (TV Guide Chat 9/27/99)
On Miss Parker
I'm paid to shoot guns, drive like a bat out of hell and deliver the best one-liners on TV. It's liberating, what can I say? Especially for a chicken at heart!

Nature lover
You can't beat fresh air and sunshine.

Would love to be....
Emma Peel's part in the Avengers.

Recommendation to aspiring young actors
Train.

Admires Miss Parker's
Diligence. Tenacity.

Relates to Miss Parker
More than I would care to admit.

Admires
Christopher Walken, Madeline Kahn, Tyne Daly. Carol Burnett. John Turturro.

Tough Character
I broke my finger, continued to shoot for five hours, and drove myself to emergency.

On her co-stars: (The Pretender Sn 4 DVD Episode Commentary: Til Death Do Us Part)
Patrick Bauchau and Jon Gries: "We were like the three musketeers."
Jason Brooks: "He made me laugh..."
Michael T. Weiss: "We had so much fun."
Jamie Denton: "One of the sexiest men on TV these days, and still such a genuine kind-hearted soul."
Harve Presnell: "Beautiful singer." "...so much fun."

I'm troubled by the randomness of life, where some are blessed while others are burdened. - Andrea Parker, 1997