Shelley Long Quotes

• I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

  Shelley Long

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

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• If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

  Shelley Long

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

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  Coffee, Brain, Needs

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• Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

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  Trust, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

  Shelley Long

  Fun, Character, Two

  Source: www.gq.com

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• In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.

  Shelley Long

  Real, Mean, Two

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

  Shelley Long

  Perfect, Im Not Perfect, I'm Not Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

  Shelley Long

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

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  Men, Care, Take Me

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

  Shelley Long

  People, Effort, Crime

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

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  Essence, Play, Television

  Source: www.gq.com

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• People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.

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  Cheer, Character, Thinking

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• I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.

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  Long, Sandwiches, Remember

  Source: www.gq.com

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• He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.

  Shelley Long

  Football, Attitude, Player

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

  Shelley Long

  Phones, Hug, Knows

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• I can't say I based [Carla] on anybody I knew. She was so foulmouthed and mean, just said what was on her mind. So I guess Carla is somebody I always wished I could be at the right moment, the one who always has the perfect comeback.

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  Mean, Perfect, Mind

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

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  Married, Womanizer, Ifs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

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  Lunch, Plot, Looks

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

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  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

  Shelley Long

  Believe, Raised, Presbyterians

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• I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

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  Powerful, Hands, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

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  Crazy, Real, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

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  Philosophy, Choices, Tvs

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

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  Crazy, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Legs, Purses

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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