Sharon Gless

Sharon Gless (when asked if she would like to do a 'bang out' comedy): They make me nervous, especially because there are so many of them now. I don't know. I know on my network, which was CBS. I'm not really there anymore. Tyne and I were asked to leave, because of our age, along with Angela Lansbury. So I don't know how receptive they would be for doing a comedy with someone my age. There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air. So, I think there's too many of them. If it could be something really, really special. Really, really unusual. You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. You know what I'm saying? But not the typical ba-boom boom, you set the joke up and then the lead gets to say the line.....

Sharon Gless (about the movie 'The Girl Next Door'): Well I'm doing a movie here for CBS, called THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. The girl next door is played by Tracey Gold. It's the story about a young girl who comes into the police station and confesses, or tries to confess, to a murder that happened two years ago. Where I come in is I'm the psychiatrist who is assigned to pull the story out of her.

Sharon Gless (about her character and Jason Issacs character on 'The State Within'): She and Mark Brydon respect each other very much. They're very complex characters who start off as allies, but become enemies for a while because of a lot of false information.

Sharon Gless (comparing the characters of Christine Cagney and Lynne Warner): Cagney was more petulant, more immature. Cagney was an angry cop with a mouth on her, who had dreams of becoming the first female police commissioner and was driven almost in an unhealthy way. Lynne is much more controlled, much cooler. She may be a hothead inside the room, but never to her detriment. Cagney had no respect for authority at all, but Lynne does respect her President.

Sharon Gless (about her character in 'The State Within'): She's obviously very tough, but is also very funny.

Sharon Gless: I'd be bored silly playing an entirely admirable character.

Sharon Gless: Packing a rod is not my idea of heaven.

Sharon Gless: To assume we're alike at all is to assume I can only act myself. I am acting.

Sharon Gless: I like Cagney because she's complex and flawed and so am I.

Sharon Gless (about 'Cagney & Lacey'): We're showing women who can do a so-called man's job without ever forgetting that they are women.