Actress Quotes

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

All men are difficult.

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.'

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.