Loni Anderson Quotations

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

If you don't really have anything to do with the tabloid person, then it doesn't bother you. I'd rather laugh and say 'that other Loni Anderson.' I think that's healthy. Otherwise, it can eat you up.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Who says there can't be more than one very attractive woman on a show without it becoming CHARLIE'S ANGELS?

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.