Tyne Quotes & Sayings

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

I suppose a cycle courier knows better than anyone how a murder on Marble Arch can hold up traffic. — Tyne O'Connell

Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter." Tyne — Jonathan Renshaw

I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits. — Tyne Daly

My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up? — Tyne O'Connell

Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles. — Tyne O'Connell

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it. — Tyne Daly

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health — Tyne O'Connell

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck. — Tyne Daly

It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter. — Tyne O'Connell

Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy — Tyne O'Connell

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations ... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are. — Tyne Daly

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women. — Tyne Daly

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

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one. — Tyne Daly

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

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

She had lovely eyes - an odd, green-blue shade - and a really dirty, likeable smile. She was gorgeous, even with her hair scraped back and wearing that horrible overall thing in a nineteen-fifties blue check - Actually, she was gorgeous because of that. She was just an ordinary gorgeous working girl in a crap job in a small town in the north of England and that broke Given's heart, because he longed to be ordinary. He'd love to date a girl like that. — Michael Tyne

He could be anywhere by now, so that is where I look for him. Anywhere...
There are times when I don't recognize this woman who plays with such self-possession. She is something that I have faked. She is William Tyne's daughter, I supposed; his idea of her. I put her forward when I am performing so that he will approach me. I strive to make her taller than she is, more graceful, less unsure. I don't think other people have to try so hard in their lives. Or do they? Are we all living like this? So close to this mesh of nerves?
So I played for my father another concerto, though he was never one for sitting still in a chair. He would make an exception for me, though, his firstborn. He would see the progress I have made. — Claire Kilroy

Once I have fairly seized you, to have and to hold, I'll just -figuratively speaking - attach you to a chain like this' (touching his watchguard). 'Yes, bonny wee thing, I'll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. — Tyne Daly

Not only was Miss Cribbe bearded, and always trying to get chummy with us like we we're her real children or something, but she had a disgusting incontinent springer spaniel called Misty, who was constantly sneaking in to the dorms and weeing on our duvets — Tyne O'Connell

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle. — Tyne Daly

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you. — Tyne Daly

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria. — Tyne O'Connell

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

She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look. — Tyne O'Connell

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You're generation lacks the drive. — Tyne O'Connell

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland. — Mark Knopfler

What idea have the south-country people of the Tyne? The truth is any object nearly 300 miles distant is not only entirely out of range of metropolitan sympathy, but pretty nearly out of the confines of metropolitan knowledge. To thousands and thousands the tune is barley a sound; it conveys no ideas. — Paul Brown

I suppose you're young,' she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo — Tyne O'Connell

One can't be too safe, only too sorry. — Tyne O'Connell

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks — Tyne O'Connell

We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies! — Tyne O'Connell

The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere. — Tyne O'Connell

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV. — Tyne Daly

The things you see when you're not carrying a gun — Tyne O'Connell

Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play. — Tyne Daly

Pamela could be at the gym right now, or at the salon, or with the board of directors dealing with the business. She could be anywhere. — Traci Tyne Hilton

I had wasted my life in the pursuit of a career, romance, financial independence and the best heels in town when it seems I could have done more for my self esteem with a .38 calibre handgun — Tyne O'Connell

The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets — Tyne O'Connell

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years. — Tyne Daly

Sweat makes good friendship cement. — Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. — Tyne Daly

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs. — Tyne Daly

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore. — Tyne O'Connell

What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job — Tyne O'Connell

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

London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss. — Tyne O'Connell

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

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

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. — Tyne Daly

Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world's problems? — Tyne O'Connell

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

He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course. — Tyne O'Connell

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England. — Neil Marshall

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart. — Tyne O'Connell

A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything — Tyne O'Connell

All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!". — Tyne O'Connell

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it. — Tyne Daly

Wear your pain like lip gloss! — Tyne O'Connell

I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. — Tyne Daly

I've got you under my skin, or is it just my eczma again? — Tyne O'Connell

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then. — David Almond

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

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

When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations. — Tyne O'Connell

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

I had made the unwise decision to have my old clothes bagged and wear my fancy new finds home, so that I could debut my new look to the world at large. The reaction had been mixed at best, but often Tyne and wear was unable to keep up with my style savvy, so I didn't let it dishearten me. — Matthew Crow

The Only place to love a man or fight a man is below the belt — Tyne O'Connell

I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job. — Michael Biehn

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard — Tyne O'Connell

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. — Tyne Daly

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress! — Tyne O'Connell

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

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly

It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress — Tyne O'Connell

I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love. — Tyne Daly

Never take drugs before Marmalade — Tyne O'Connell

She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as compliments until I realised I was too old, too fat, too tall, too dull, too everything to ever find love. — Tyne O'Connell

My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read - I like to buy. — A. Edward Newton

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood. — 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