If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Shelley LongI'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."
Shelley LongEveryone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
Shelley LongPeople 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.
Shelley Long