Michael Learned Quotes

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

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

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

- Michael Learned

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

- Michael Learned

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

- Michael Learned

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

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

- 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

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 never had a driving ambition to be a star.

- Michael Learned

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

- Michael Learned

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

- Michael Learned