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

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?

What's my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Love your family. Spend time, be kind and serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised and today is short.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. ... thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.