Best quotes by Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing
American actress
Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard) is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006). She is also known for originating the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation; the 1993 film version earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She was also one of two comic foils of The Number Painter on Sesame Street.
Channing won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, both in 2002. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2004 for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Up Close & Personal (1996), Practical Magic (1998), and Woody Allen's Anything Else (2003). She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife (2012–16).
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Acting workActing 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 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.
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.
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 hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!
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 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.
I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.
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.
When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
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.
I lead a very boring, normal life.
It's always great to have another chance at something.
You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
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 have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.