52 Quotes by Sharon Gless

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

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.

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.

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.

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

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

We were the highest rated TV movie of the year. The highest of all three networks, I think. Who woulda thunk it? Two old broads.

Besides, here Chris is in her late 40s, so what would all of a sudden come over her and make her get married? Don't ask about me.