Donna Mills Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.”

“My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.”

“The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.”

“I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.”

“I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.”

“I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.”

“I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.”

“I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.”

“I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.”

“I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.”