Both of my parents were Taiwanese Opera performers. They went to join up with a troupe in Singapore in 1934, and that's where I was born. I was ten years old before I ever got to Taiwan. "In the stage world, this type of story is hardly unusual.
「我的父母都是演歌仔戲的，一九三四年去新加坡搭團演出，我就在那裡出生，十歲才又回到台灣，」對於逐戲臺而生的藝人而言，陳瑪玲流離的人生並不特殊。