Quotes by Kathleen Chalfant

“He asked me, so of course I came. And its also something I like to do. Ive read a fair number of stories for Selected Shorts here (a similar program), and its a wonderful thing to do. I think reading prose in that kind of situation is great, because its like getting back to the old storytelling roots.”

“Hes a writer that I like very much. Hes a very funny writer with a great, offbeat sense of character. Hes attracted to odd people, and this story is like that, in part about a 63-year-old woman, which is interesting to me. Its a character study, really. I dont want to talk too much about it, because we dont want to spoil the story.”

“One of the things about it that is important to me, and I think one of the powers of Angels is its great beauty. I think its beautiful like Mozart. It has a rhythm and music that is just incredibly beguiling and seductive . . . and funny. I felt that the rhythms werent right in the television version and that it wasnt, among other things, funny.”