Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Dinah Manoff

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Last updated on November 4, 2024.

Dinah Beth Manoff is an American stage, film, and television actress and television director. She is best known for her roles as Elaine Lefkowitz on Soap, Marty Maraschino in the film Grease, Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of I Ought to Be in Pictures, for which she won a Tony Award, and Carol Weston on Empty Nest. She has starred in numerous television movies and guest-starred on various television programs. She mostly appeared on TV during the 1990s, but she has been seen in more recent theatrical films, such as The Amati Girls and Bart Got a Room, and a co-starring role on State of Grace.

American - Actress | Born: January 25, 1958

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I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.

Dinah Manoff

I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

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I'm clean and sober.

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I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

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I started acting as a way to support myself.

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When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

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I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

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My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

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I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.

Dinah Manoff

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

Dinah Manoff

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

Dinah Manoff

My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I'd fake I was sick, and she'd fake believing me.

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I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

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I've always dated hunks.

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I work out. I eat great. I'm in shape.

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Definitely, I have a New York personality.

Dinah Manoff

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

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I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

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I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.

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I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

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Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

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I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

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I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.

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I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.

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