Zitat des Tages von Tyne Daly:
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.
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.
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.
I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!
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.
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.
I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.
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.
