Quotes from Michael Learned

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

All of us from The Waltons still love each other. I think were closer than some real families.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.