Sharon Gless Quotes

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have,

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

All men are difficult.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.