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Shelley Long Biography

Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in four episodes of the spinoff Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. In 2009, she began playing a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family.

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

Crazy, Fighting, Love, Write, Writing

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.

Felt, Look, Looks, Lunch, Physically, Plot

I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.

Breasts, Long, Notice, Remember, Sandwich, Sandwiches

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

Character, Characters, Everyone, Fun, Two

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.

Benefit, Forward, Mean, Real, Steps, Two

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

Arrives, Life, Motivational, Quit, Success, Trouble

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

People, Think, Thinking, Trust, Trusted

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. "

Cheer, Looking, Springboard, Ten, Writing, Years

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

Actually, Hug, Know, Knows, Phones

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.

Choices, Looking, Movies, Philosophy, Point, Tvs

If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.

Brain, Coffee, Cup, Loan, Needs

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.

Character, Cheer, Diane, Found, Thinking

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.

Crime, Effort, Make, People, Time

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.

Attitude, Danson, Football, Player, Relief, Time

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. "

Cheer, Cheers, Movie, People, Thinking

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.

Forehead, Hand, Hands, Helped, People, Powerful

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

Ifs, Kissed, Married, Point, Somebody, Womanizer

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.

Cameras, Klutzy, Legs, Purse, Purses, Visual