Shelley Long
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Longis an American actress. She is best known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in four episodes of the spinoff Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. From 2009 to 2012, she had a recurring role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth23 August 1949
CityFort Wayne, IN
CountryUnited States of America
I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.
I'm a real 'go, go' person. . . I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
I was a 'kid' kid. Even though I experimented with performing at an early age my parents never thought I'd be an actress.
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.
I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.
He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.
In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.
I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.
The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."