Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

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?

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.