Stockard Channing Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I mean it's obvious she's sort of out there, so it was nice. I just thought she was sort of wild and interesting.

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

I think that he brings his own comedic background and also the role of television in that you have to be a realist.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

I work out a lot like everyone else. But I was not left with an athletic, lean body so I need to workout a lot.

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

People always make comments like, "You work all the time". First of all, I wish they wouldn't have to make that comment because I wish it wasn't so unusual for people be working all the time.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Trivia

Stockard has been married 4 times.

Stockard started acting in the Boston theatrical community.

In 2003, Stockard was awarded with the London Critics Circle Film ALFS Award for Actress of the Year.

Stockard is an alumna of The Maderia School.

In the movie Grease, her character Rizzo was the leader of the Pink Ladies.

In 1993, Stockard was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for playing the Upper East Side matron in the film Six Degrees of Separation. It was the same role had also earned her a Tony nomination when she performed it in the film's stage version.

Martin Sheen is the only actor that she lets call her by her real name, Susan.

She is a practicing Roman Catholic.

Her stage name is a combination of her maiden and first married names.

Stockard's older sister, Lesly Smith, was once the Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.

In 1965, she graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in History.

She was arrested on January 25, 2005 for driving while intoxicated on the Hollywood Freeway.

Appeared numerous times on Sesame Street in the early 1970's.

She was 34 years old when she play high school senior Rizzo in the movie Grease.

She's recently been doing commercials for AIG, an insurance company.