Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Holland Taylor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Holland Taylor.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Holland Taylor

Holland Virginia Taylor is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants. — © Holland Taylor
I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.
I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.
I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.
I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.
I just never was the marrying kind.
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.
There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie or TV show, it's a three-dimensional experience you're in the middle of, but when you're reading something, you're suppling the reality with your imagination.
Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.
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