Stockard Channing Quotations

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

We are five people who enjoy each other's company and we are all grown ups, ... That is the curious thing about us. There is not like, 'Here are the little kids, the teenagers and the adults.' I am not saying we are all one generation but, basically, we are five adults in New York and we are all single.

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

I sort of said to myself, 'You know, this is clearly what is the next hand I am playing in my career,'

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

It has to come from the heart. But it was nice when she accused me of being too much like her.

You work in the ER, dear. People die there. You really want that hair to be the last thing they see?

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

I lead a very boring, normal life.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

It's always great to have another chance at something.

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.