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33 quotes by Tyne Daly

Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American stage and screen actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work, a Tony Award and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in New York and made her Broadway debut in the play That Summer - That Fall in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988), for which...
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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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