Quotes from Sharon Gless

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.