"I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman."
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"I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on."
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"I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it."
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"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."
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"If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee."
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"Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust."
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"In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side."
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"Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun."
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"I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works."
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"I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich."
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"I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem."
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"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."
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"I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition.""
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"Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?"
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"In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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.""
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"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."
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"It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy."
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