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All Quotes by author - Tyne Daly
" A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. "
Shooting
Critic
Someone
" 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. "
Interesting
Home
Play
" 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
Acting
Need
" 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. "
Eat
Fat
I Am
" 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. "
Brave
Beautiful
I Am
" I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. "
Job
Reason
Gift
" I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits. "
Get
Spirits
Quiet
" I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs. "
Waist
Top
Legs
" 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
Know
Writing
" 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 in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love. "
Love
Body
Government
" I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! "
Playing
Want
Become
" 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. "
Old
Too
Glamorous
" I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. "
Tend
Morning
Paid
" 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
Lucky
Career
" In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours. "
School
Day
Best
" 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! "
Think
American
Me
" 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. "
Think
Dreams
Life
" 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. "
Way
You
Will
" I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. "
Business
Me
Family Business
" 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.' "
Wish
Village
Talk
" 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. "
Want
You
Stand
" 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. "
Me
People
See
" My job always is to play a person, not to judge her. "
Judge
Play
Person
" My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right? "
Television
Started
Right
" Sweat makes good friendship cement. "
Friendship
Makes
Sweat
" 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. "
Hope
Good
You
" 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. "
Street
Feel
Job
" 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 my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years. "
Two
Award
Mother
" 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. "
Eye
Clothes
People
" 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. "
Work
Want
Me
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