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Acting Quote by Tyne Daly

“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.” quote by Tyne Daly — Download Open image

“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.”

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

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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?

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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.

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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 of an…

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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 used their…

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

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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 can do…

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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 mother of…

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