Linda Gray Quotations

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.

I feel better if I exercise and eat healthily.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

We are reading Dr. Seuss books, watching some of his videos, and listening to his books on tape.

The fact that a year passed before the murderer was arrested or indicted, there was this sort of doom hanging over our heads. No one knew who it was or if he'd be back.

At the time, it was deemed probably the worst crisis to hit a college campus in modern times. There had been murders and shootings on campuses before, but in most of those cases the perpetrators were immediately known. This was a situation where five bodies were found over a three-day period . . . and Danny Rolling was not charged for almost a year.

It was about family, albeit dysfunctional. But it was about family, and I think that?s what draws people in ? the interrelationships, you know, everyone living under one roof ... It was this dynamic, a really charismatic family that moved into everyone else?s home.

Almost everybody involved in the day-to-day concerns back then had been at the university for years. The only new person was Dr. Lombardi. He was incredibly compassionate . . . and eminently believable as a dad and as a higher-eduction administrator.

I want them to have experiences and let them see that there's more to life than what's around the corner.

By the time I got the cat and dog, I couldn't see a thing.

If he hadn't gotten those young women it would have been someone else.

If I hadn't continued working for a university, I might not think about it every day.

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

You make a mistake, you keep going.

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in her favor. Dogs never know what is coming and so live purely in the moment, savoring the good, doing their best to endure the bad--and they offer up this miraculous example so that we can learn from it.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.