Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Shelley Long

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Shelley Long.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer and comedian. Long is best known for playing Diane Chambers on the hit sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in three episodes of the spin-off Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. In 2009, she began playing a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family.

American - Actress | Born: August 23, 1949

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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.

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If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

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I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

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

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

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

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There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

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I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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."

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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