Tyne Daly Quotes

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I really take acting seriously.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.