Quotes by Tyne Daly

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

— Tyne Daly

Friendship

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

— Tyne Daly

Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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.

— Tyne Daly

Love

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.

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Wisdom

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.

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Hope

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

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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.

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Love

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

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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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Life

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

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Wisdom

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.

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Love

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

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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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

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Hope

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.

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Education

Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.

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Success

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 imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

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Courage