SHELLEY LONG

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

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.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

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.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

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'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.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

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.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

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.

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.

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.

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."

People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

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.

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

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.

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.