You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that. June Diane Raphael More Quotes by June Diane Raphael More Quotes From June Diane Raphael [The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible. June Diane Raphael piecesdifferentfiction [The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I related to a lot of it and continue to as I've gotten older, and especially at this moment in time, I want to read it again. June Diane Raphael pieceswhitefiction I'm afraid of death, obviously. June Diane Raphael afraid-of-death I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space. June Diane Raphael fearlessspacethinking Your best friendships are with people who share your world view. June Diane Raphael viewspeopleworld I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off and are really engaged in what's happening right now and trying to effect change where we can, when we can, I think we also need to express ourselves and express our anger and also find joy in things like The Golden Girls right now. June Diane Raphael girljoythinking I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess. June Diane Raphael pilotsinsanegirl Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister]. June Diane Raphael my-sisteryears I remember my dad watched a lot of TV that we watched, too. I remember watching Saved By The Bell because me and my sister watched it, and my dad kind of watched it with us, too, while he was cooking or whatever he was doing in the kitchen. June Diane Raphael kitchendadcooking There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too." And I feel like, for me, that was around 11 or 12, where I could actually join my parents in their viewing and wasn't so irritated that they were always watching Columbo. June Diane Raphael irritatedhateparent I remember watching that show [Golden Girls] with my parents and not totally understanding it. Like, a lot of comedy flew over my head, a lot of the sexual stuff I didn't know. But because there was a laugh track, I'd laugh really hard, and I'm now remembering the look on my parents' faces - I had no idea why it was funny. I was sort of, like, laughing along. June Diane Raphael trackgirlideas I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard. June Diane Raphael girlgracelong I would spend the rest of my life inside The Golden Girls, of course. I feel like my dream is to just be retired and to really let it all out and to not give an F anymore, and so Golden Girls, to me, is that time in life. June Diane Raphael girldreamgiving Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. June Diane Raphael tv-showspilotswriting I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately. June Diane Raphael use Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick. June Diane Raphael coursessickparent I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet. June Diane Raphael careerspeople I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!" June Diane Raphael character [Paul Scheer] was kind of pretending to not be as sick as he was. And then we almost pulled into this spa when I finally called it and said, "I'm very ill. We need to go home." And he said, "I am, too." He said that he wasn't going to do his treatments, he was going to - by the way, these are great problems to have - he was going to lie in the men's relaxation room in between throwing up. I was like, "This is insane. We're sick, and we need to just acknowledge it. And it sucks that it happened on my birthday, but let's get back into bed." June Diane Raphael homemenlying I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look. June Diane Raphael selfpeopleway
![Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister]. by June Diane Raphael](https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-medium-quote-ed8aed8f6bd4b1bb16a88641b65aa997.jpg)
![](https://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-was-like-everybody-sees-my-characters-nobody-sees-me&appkey=&title=June Diane Raphael quote: I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"&pic=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-ba48dfa597e1d3cd05881512cb92643f.jpg&ralateUid=&language=zh_cn){kind=link}
![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-was-like-everybody-sees-my-characters-nobody-sees-me&description=I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"&media=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-ba48dfa597e1d3cd05881512cb92643f.jpg){kind=link}