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"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."
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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
Mother
"My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded."
Sister
"As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role."
Play
"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
Family
"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
Acting
"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
Acting
"The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life."
Life
"I am the odd man out in the family."
Family
"Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking."
Smoking
"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."
Daughter
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