Holland Taylor Quotes

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I just never was the marrying kind.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie or TV show, it's a three-dimensional experience you're in the middle of, but when you're reading something, you're suppling the reality with your imagination.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.