Quotes by Deidre Hall

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

I'm doing a lot of child research now because of my son. I've taken him to swimming class, and I go to Mommies and Me, and... I get all the parenting magazines. I think with women who are doing it all for the first time, and are not quite my age, there's this process of discovery.

I'm used to playing literal story lines and dealing with people's emotions. I had a story where I was put in a dungeon for four weeks. That to me is such an unlikely scenario, I had a very hard time making my imagination go there. I find myself not actually playing it. I will show up for it.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

We have rehearsals all day and begin taping the show around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm there until 5:30 or 6.