Tyne Daly Quotes

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

Tyne Daly

• People

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Tyne Daly

• Job
• Judge

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

Tyne Daly

• Life
• Work
• Celebrity

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

Tyne Daly

• Good

I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'

Tyne Daly

• Work
• Wish

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Tyne Daly

• Choices

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

Tyne Daly

• Forever
• Service

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

Tyne Daly

In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.

Tyne Daly

• School
• Friends