Tyne Daly Quotes

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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 are no other…
• You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will…
• I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
• I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!
• I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
• Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the…
• I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.
• I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the…
• I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as…
• 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.
• I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I…
• The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want…
• Sweat makes good friendship cement.
• A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.
• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
• My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
• I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams…
• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
• When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw…
• There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher,…

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