I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

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

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.