Tyne Daly Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Actress Born: February 21, 1946

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

Friendship Good Sweat Makes

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 choices.

Love You Love Is Choices

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

Hero Women Never Lucky

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

Battle Never Someone Shooting

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

Good I Am Want Old

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Morning Sorry Wear Paint

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 not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

Women Age You People

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 it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

Learning Job Feel Street

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 profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

Myself You Service Way

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

Family Me Business Family Business

Top 10
Tyne Daly
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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 get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

Women Wait Tough Lady

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.

Look Know Old Anything

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

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 will eat it.

Me I Am Fat Will

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 they used to into writing letters.

Myself People Thought Writing

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

Time Television 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 will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Life Dreams Struggle School

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.

Service Parents Think Important

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

Life Work Me Feelings

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 those laws go down one at a time.

Marriage Time Husband Skin

I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'

Work Village Wish I Wish

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, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.

People Parents Hair Clothes

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Job Judge Person Play

I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a lot more gentle towards me!

Me Culture Think Know

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

Home Quiet Games Get

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

Love Me People Story

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