American Quotes

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

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.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.