Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need. Tyne Daly More Quotes by Tyne Daly More Quotes From Tyne Daly My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right? Tyne Daly right boring time television 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 me work feelings life When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time. Tyne Daly skin marriage husband time 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 i-wish village wish work There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic. Tyne Daly parents clothes hair people My job always is to play a person, not to judge her. Tyne Daly person judge job play I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a lot more gentle towards me! Tyne Daly think know me culture I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits. Tyne Daly get games home quiet 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 story me love people
