Shelley Long
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Longis an American actress. She is best known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in four episodes of the spinoff Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. From 2009 to 2012, she had a recurring role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth23 August 1949
CityFort Wayne, IN
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.
I'm a real 'go, go' person. . . I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
I was a 'kid' kid. Even though I experimented with performing at an early age my parents never thought I'd be an actress.
In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.
He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.
I was too terrified to notice she [Shelley Long] had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.
The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."
I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
People 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.
I'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."
I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.