Loni Anderson

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

“There's nothing glamorous about being dead.”

“Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.”

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

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

“I am the odd man out in the family.”

“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.”

“Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.”

“I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.”

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

“My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.”

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

“My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.”

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

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

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

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

“Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.”

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

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