Tim Daly Quotes

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Tim Daly

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 1, 1956

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

Tim Daly

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

Tim Daly

No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

Tim Daly

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

Tim Daly

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

Tim Daly

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Tim Daly

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

Tim Daly

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Tim Daly

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

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It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

Tim Daly

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Tim Daly

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

Tim Daly

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

Tim Daly

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

Tim Daly

I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television.

Tim Daly

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

Tim Daly

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

Tim Daly

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

Tim Daly

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.

Tim Daly

I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids around, and I'm angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won't let me do that anymore.

Tim Daly