Quotes from Loni Anderson

I am the odd man out in the family.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.