Latest Shelley Long Quotes from Interviews

• The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

  Shelley Long

  Lunch, Plot, Looks

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

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

  Shelley Long

  Crazy, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

• 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.

  Shelley Long

  Mean, Perfect, Mind

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

• 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."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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

  Shelley Long

  Married, Womanizer, Ifs

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

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

  Shelley Long

  Essence, Play, Television

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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.

  Shelley Long

  Philosophy, Choices, Tvs

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

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

  Shelley Long

  Long, Sandwiches, Remember

  Source: www.gq.com