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Tyne Daly

(1946) Television Actor United States

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Tyne Daly is a television actor from the United States, best known for Christy Collection.

Quick Facts About Tyne Daly

Born: February 21, 1946
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: Christy Collection
Spouse: Georg Stanford Brown

About Tyne Daly

Ellen Tyne Daly is an American actress whose six-decade career included many leading roles in movies and theater. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Lucy Award

Quotes by Tyne Daly

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought…

Letters

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The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh.…

Annoyance

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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Battle

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My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

About

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If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

Accepting

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There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye…

Afterwards

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I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have…

Actor

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I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Business

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I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I…

Bedroom

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The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the…

Acting

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When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did.…

Because

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I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than…

Believe

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Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

Class

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Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in…

Being

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Sweat makes good friendship cement.

Cement

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The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and…

Acting

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Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There…

Acting

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I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

Glamorous

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What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take…

Acting

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When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I…

Actors

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“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”

Life

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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to…

Age

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I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.

Games

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In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop…

After

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I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get…

Actors

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