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Tyne Daly

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.

— Tyne Daly life

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

— Tyne Daly war

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.

— Tyne Daly women

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

— Tyne Daly family

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

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.

— Tyne Daly man

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.

— Tyne Daly men

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

— Tyne Daly friendship

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.

— Tyne Daly time

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.

— Tyne Daly greed

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

— Tyne Daly read

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.

— Tyne Daly self

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.

— Tyne Daly imagination

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.

— Tyne Daly writing

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.

— Tyne Daly time

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.

— Tyne Daly women

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

— Tyne Daly good

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.

— Tyne Daly amor

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

— Tyne Daly home

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

— Tyne Daly pain

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.

— Tyne Daly love

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

— Tyne Daly job

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

— Tyne Daly time

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.

— Tyne Daly hope

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.

— Tyne Daly women

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