Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.