Michael Learned Quotes

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Michael Learned

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 9, 1939

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

Michael Learned

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

Michael Learned

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

Michael Learned

All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.

Michael Learned

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

Michael Learned

If you care about what you do, you don't want to let people down.

Michael Learned

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

Michael Learned

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Michael Learned

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Michael Learned

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

Michael Learned

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

Michael Learned

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.

Michael Learned

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

Michael Learned

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

Michael Learned