Quotes by Sharon Gless

About Sharon Gless:

Sharon Marguerite Gless is an American character actress of stage, film and television, who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–1978), as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), as Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk (2000–2005), and as Madeline Westen on Burn Notice (2007–2013). Gless has won two Emmy Awards and has received 10 Emmy nominations. She has won two Golden Globe Awards (in 1986 and 1991) and has received seven Golden Globe nominations. Gless received her own Star on the Walk of Fame in 1995.
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I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Sharon Gless

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

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.

Sharon Gless

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

Sharon Gless

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.

Sharon Gless

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

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.

Sharon Gless

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.

Sharon Gless

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...

Sharon Gless

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...

Sharon Gless

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.

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

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.

Sharon Gless

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

Sharon Gless

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...

Sharon Gless

Author Bio

  • NameSharon Gless
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornMay 31, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor